Soil & Tillage Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Soil & Tillage Research is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Effect of cover crop on soil fertility and bacterial diversity in a banana plantation in southwestern China170
Physical properties of technosols at brown coal mine wastes in Eastern Siberia133
Simulating water and nitrogen runoff with APSIM130
Impact of saline soil improvement measures on salt content in the abandonment-reclamation process118
Comparative effect of conventional and adaptive management approaches on watershed health114
Soil profile carbon sequestration and nutrient responses varied with cover crops in irrigated forage rotations107
Organic carbon distribution and soil aggregate stability in response to long-term phosphorus addition in different land-use types103
Spatial variation and temporal decline (1985–2017) of soil organic carbon stocks (SOCS) in relation to land use types in Tombel area, South-West Cameroon102
Nitrogen agronomic efficiency under nitrogen fertilization does not change over time in the long term: Evidence from 477 global studies95
Temporal and spatial characteristics of paddy soil potassium in China and its response to organic amendments: A systematic analysis91
Enhancing soil carbon and nitrogen through grassland conversion from degraded croplands in China: Assessing magnitudes and identifying key drivers of phosphorus reduction83
The short-term effects of an existing channel, a single pass of tillage and their interaction on the generation of runoff and sediment81
A calculation model of the mean flow velocity of overland flow considering a variety of grass covers and raindrop’s characteristics81
Economics of alternative tillage systems in dryland crop rotations in U.S. Great Plains80
Evaluation of soil macro-aggregate characteristics in response to soil macropore characteristics investigated by X-ray computed tomography under freeze-thaw effects77
Can legume species, crop residue management or no-till mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from a legume-wheat crop rotation in a semi-arid environment?77
Effects of tillage microrelief units on splash erosion: A case study from the Loess Plateau, in China76
Comparing the effect of different sample conditions and spectral libraries on the prediction accuracy of soil properties from near- and mid-infrared spectra at the field-scale76
Wear on steel tillage tools: A review of material, soil and dynamic conditions74
Minimizing sampling induced errors in Ks-measurements of stone bearing soils73
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Carbon accumulation dynamics and development processes of peatland established after the Changbaishan Millennium eruption68
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Spate irrigation slightly ameliorates an arid soil's quality, but tree planting enhances its characteristics63
Effect of fertilization on farmland phosphorus loss via surface runoff in China: A meta-analysis62
Crop diversification effects on soil organic carbon and nitrogen storage and stabilization is mediated by soil management practices in semiarid woody crops61
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Fifteen-years of continuous application of organic materials improve the soil aggregation, organic carbon status and sustain the productivity of the basmati rice-wheat system56
No-till annual wheat increases plant productivity, soil microbial biomass, and soil carbon stabilization relative to intermediate wheatgrass in a Mediterranean climate56
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Evaluating soil water dynamics under a no-tillage system with residual plastic film mulching in an arid region of western China using HYDRUS-2D53
Consequences of elevated CO2 on soil acidification, cation depletion, and inorganic carbon: A column-based experimental investigation53
From science to practice: The AGSUS protocol for monitoring and certification of sustainable soil management and carbon sequestration51
Structure dependent changes in pore water pressure due to stress application and consequences on the effective stress50
Assessing the availability of potassium and its quantity-intensity relations under long term conservation agriculture based cereal systems in North-West India50
Approximate analytical solution to equation for two-dimensional soil-water movement in ponding infiltration based on numerical simulation50
Gully erosion susceptibility mapping considering seasonal variations of NDVI using a machine learning approach in the Mollisol region of China50
Divergent effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration between bare patches and shrub patches under simulated rainfall in a desert ecosystem in Northwest China50
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Response of soil microbial biomass C, N, and P and microbial quotient to agriculture and agricultural abandonment in a meadow steppe of northeast China49
Predicting and mapping soil magnetic susceptibility in an agro-pastoral transitional zone: Influencing factors and implications48
Gully is the dominant sediment source of snowmelt erosion in the black soil region – A case study47
High-molecular-weight dissolved organic matter enhanced phosphorus availability in paddy soils: Evidence from field and microcosm experiments47
Cropping system partially offsets tillage-related degradation of soil organic carbon and aggregate properties in a 30-yr rainfed agroecosystem47
Organic carbon sequestration by Fe oxides in aggregates in a Pinus massoniana conifer-broadleaf mixed forest47
Mechanical and microscopic properties of soil according to the rate of increase in pore water pressure47
Are the yield of sunflower and Paiaguas palisadegrass biomass influenced by soil physical quality?47
The potential of crop residue recycling for sustainable phosphorus management in non-flooded rice-lentil system in alkaline soil46
Interaction of pyrolysed and un-pyrolysed organic materials enhances carbon accumulation in soil irrigated with water of variable electrical conductivity46
Effective prediction of soil organic matter by deep SVD concatenation using FT-NIR spectroscopy46
Machinery traffic in sugarcane straw removal operation: Stress transmitted and soil compaction44
The effects of traffic management systems on the yield and economics of crops grown in deep, shallow and zero tilled sandy loam soil over eight years.43
Potential of visible-near infrared spectroscopy for the determination of three soil aggregate stability indices43
Deep tilling and localized liming improve soil chemical fertility and sugarcane yield in clayey soils43
Response of boreal clay soil properties and erosion to ten years of no-till management42
Effect of filling materials on reconstructed soil phosphorus adsorption and desorption in mining area42
Plow layer management during the fallow season can enhance the wheat productivity and resource utilization in a semi-arid region42
A comparison of preferential flow characteristics and influencing factors between two soils developed in the karst region of Southwest China41
Improvement in dryland crop performance and soil properties with multiple annual applications of lignite-derived humic amendment41
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A 44-year balanced fertilizer application affected rill erosion resistance by changing humus, aggregates, and polyvalent cation40
Comparing mini-disk infiltrometer, BEST method and soil core estimates of hydraulic conductivity of a sandy-loam soil40
Measurement and modelling of soil water dynamics under ridge tillage in paddy field40
Effects of reduced tillage and prolonged cover cropping in maize on soil quality and yield40
Current limitations and future research needs for predicting soil precompression stress: A synthesis of available data40
Influence of tillage methods and soil crust breakers on cotton seedling emergence in silty-loam soil39
Spatial pattern and controlling factors of soil organic carbon density in a typical karst province, China38
Soil organic matter gain by reduced tillage intensity: Storage, pools, and chemical composition38
Dynamics and composition of soil organic carbon in response to 15 years of straw return in a Mollisol38
An improved pore-solid fractal model for predicting coastal saline soil hydraulic properties based on changepoints determined by genetic algorithm-support vector regression37
Investigation of the burial and mixing performance of a rotary tiller using discrete element method37
A novel UNet segmentation method based on deep learning for preferential flow in soil37
Dynamics and influencing factors of soluble organic nitrogen in paddy soil under different long-term fertilization treatments36
Spatial relationships between the van Genuchten soil-water retention curve parameters and photosynthetic gas exchange variables in a wheat field35
Higher soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration in rice than non-rice soils following land reclamation35
Loss and conservation of soil organic carbon and nutrients in arid and semiarid China during aeolian dust emissions35
Measuring the causal effect of no-till system adoption on Brazilian natural areas35
Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter and inorganic solutes in soil profiles of tropical pasturelands35
Hydraulic and pore functions of differently textured soils modified by biochar from different parts of the mango plant35
Intercropping perennial aquatic plants with rice improved paddy field soil microbial biomass, biomass carbon and biomass nitrogen to facilitate soil sustainability34
Does century-old biochar affect soil interrill erodibility on cropland soils? A study on pre-industrial kiln sites34
Partial organic substitution increases soil quality and crop yields but promotes global warming potential in a wheat-maize rotation system in China33
Evaluating the Splintex model for estimating the soil water retention curve for a wide range of soils33
Microrelief and spatial heterogeneity of soils on limestone, Sub Ural plateau, Russia: Attributes and mechanism of formation33
Effect of hardpan on the vertical distribution of water stress in a converted paddy field33
The impacts of cover crop mixes on the penetration resistance model of an Oxisol under no-tillage33
Control of landscape position on organic matter decomposition via soil moisture during a wet summer33
Weed shift and community diversity in conservation and conventional agriculture systems in pigeonpea- castor systems under rainfed semi-arid tropics33
Mitigation of carbon dioxide by accelerated sequestration from long-term biochar amended paddy soil33
A simple method for predicting the hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils with different void ratios33
How does soil compaction alter nitrous oxide fluxes? A meta-analysis33
Evaluation and recommendations for the use of dynamic penetrometers32
Environmental and management drivers of soil health indicators on Michigan field crop farms32
Soil tillage and machinery traffic influence soil water availability and air fluxes in sugarcane fields32
Future warming-induced phosphorus loss mitigated by land conversion and degradation32
Zero-valent iron addition stimulated straw-derived carbon accumulation in submerged soil32
A three-year measurement reveals that partial conversion from synthetic fertilizer to dairy manure increases cumulative nitric oxide emissions from a long-term experimental cropland32
Experimental basis for determining contact angle in the ideal model of unsaturated soils32
Isotropic compression behavior of salinized unsaturated agricultural soil: An experimental and constitutive investigation31
Assessing the effects of soil and water conservation in gully land consolidation using the modified SWAT-Terrace model31
Soil aggregate stability helps construct a stable nitrogen fixation system in lignite-based amendment-driven saline-sodic soil remediation31
Spatio-temporal evolution of water erosion in the western Songnen Plain: Analysis of its response to land use dynamics and climate change30
Divergent response of Chernozem organic matter towards short-term water stress in Poa pratensis L. rhizosphere and bulk soil in pot experiments: A spectroscopic study30
Evaluating soil organic carbon changes after 16 years of soil relocation in Chinese Mollisols by optimizing the input data of the RothC model30
Variations in the profile distribution of soil aggregates and organic carbon under rice-crayfish coculture system in Jianghan Plain, China30
The effect of soil salt content and ionic composition on nitrification in a Fluvisol of the Yellow River Delta30
Long-term straw return increases fungal residual contribution to soil microaggregate nitrogen pool: An eco-enzymatic stoichiometric study30
Topsoil shear strength – Measurements and predictions29
Exploring nitrogen management methods for depressing the decline of wheat grain protein in plastic film mulch via 15N-labelling technique29
Soil microstructure as affected by tillage, rotation and residue management in a sweet sorghum-based cropping system in soils with low organic carbon content in South Africa29
Variability in soil characteristics in the field–bund transition area increases water loss potential in paddy fields29
Towards rapid analysis with XRF sensor for assessing soil fertility attributes: Effects of dwell time reduction29
WITHDRAWN: Counterions, smectite, and palygorskite increase microstructural stability of saline-sodic soils29
Investigating spatial relationships of soil friability and driving factors through co-regionalization with state-space analysis in a subtropical watershed29
Development of pedotransfer functions for predicting hydraulic parameters of van Genuchten model by incorporating environmental variables on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau29
Construction of complex features for predicting soil total nitrogen content based on convolution operations29
Plastic-shed vegetable cultivation alters soil gross nitrogen transformation rates and nitrous oxide production pathways29
Evaluation of soil salt dynamics in a tomato-corn intercropping system with various spatial arrangements: Experiment and modeling29
Soil salinity simulation based on electromagnetic induction and deep learning29
Using ground-penetrating radar to investigate the thickness of mollic epipedons developed from loessial parent material28
Soil carbon, nitrogen, and biotic properties after long-term no-till and nitrogen fertilization in a subtropical Vertisol28
An empirical model for prediction of topsoil deformation in field traffic28
Does spontaneous cover crop increase the stocks of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in commercial olive orchard?28
Impacts of soil compaction and historical soybean variety growth on soil macropore structure28
Spatial variation of gully erosion determinants across subtropical regions of China28
Does long-term application of mineral fertilizers improve physical properties and nutrient regime of sandy soils?28
Quantification of the pore size distribution of a Rhodic Hapludox under different management systems with X-ray microtomography and computational simulation28
Development of a dual sideway-share subsurface tillage implement: Part 2. Effect of tool geometry on tillage forces and soil disturbance characteristics28
Changes in micronutrient concentrations under minimum tillage and cotton-based crop rotations in irrigated Vertisols28
Soil mechanical reinforcement by the fibrous roots of selected rangeland plants using a large soil-root shear apparatus27
Nitrogen input level modulates straw-derived organic carbon physical fractions accumulation by stimulating specific fungal groups during decomposition27
Soil-dwelling springtails as indicators of the efficiency of No-till technologies with different amounts of mineral fertilizers in the crop rotation on chernozem soils27
Biochar application promotes crops yield through regulating root development and the community structure of root endophytic fungi in wheat-maize rotation27
Reductive soil disinfestation with biochar amendment modified microbial community composition in soils under plastic greenhouse vegetable production27
Soil quality assessment to compare tillage systems in Cukurova Plain, Turkey27
Soil depth mapping and its linkage to gully erosion rate prediction in granite areas of southern China27
Including soil depth as a predictor variable increases prediction accuracy of SOC stocks27
Mapping cation exchange capacity and exchangeable potassium using proximal soil sensing data at the multiple-field scale27
Soil heterogeneity and the challenge of identifying a trajectory of soil properties development at a mine rehabilitated site27
3D printing of a fiber optic pressure sensor27
Long-term land use and tillage influence on phosphorus species in Brazilian Oxisols: A multi-technique assessment by chemical P fractionation, 31P NMR and P K-edge XANES spectroscopies27
Bacterial interference competition and environmental filtering reduce the fungal taxonomic and functional contribution to plant residue decomposition in anoxic paddy soils27
Air injection in paddy soil reduces N2O and NH3 emissions and regulates the nitrogen cycle26
Effect of bio-tillage on the least limiting water range of clayey red soil26
Nitrogen fertilization allows grazing intensification without degrading soil physical quality26
Assessment of carbon carrying capacities of Alfisols and Vertisols under long-term manuring and fertilization26
Modelling and optimization of urea super granule (USG) placement depth in paddy cultivation under check basin irrigation using HYDRUS-2D model26
Degradation of acetochlor in soil by adding organic fertilizers with different conditioners26
Estimation of soil water retention curves from soil bulk electrical conductivity and water content measurements26
Experimental study on the stability of vegetated earthen slopes under intense rainfall26
Micro/nanobubble-aerated drip irrigation affects saline soil microenvironments and tomato growth by altering bacterial communities26
A geospatial approach for evaluating impact and potentiality of conservation farming for soil health improvement at regional and farm scale26
Can gypsum and organic amendments achieve sustainability, productivity and maintain soil health under soybean-mustard cropping in sodic soils of western India26
Responses of Q10 to anthropogenic soil redistribution: Synthetic effects of SOM composition and r/K-shifts of microbial community25
Do diversified crop rotations influence soil physical health? A meta-analysis25
Effects on soil nitrogen and plant production from land applying three types of biosolids to an agricultural field for three consecutive years25
Using X-ray computed tomography to quantify variability in soil macropore characteristics in pastures25
Leaf nitrogen and phosphorus resorption improves wheat grain yield in rotation with legume crops in south-eastern Australia25
Soil organic matter pools response to perennial grain cropping and nitrogen fertilizer25
Maize/faba bean intercropping with rhizobial inoculation in a reclaimed desert soil enhances productivity and symbiotic N2 fixation and reduces apparent N losses25
Impact of ryegrass cover crop inclusion on soil phosphorus and pqqC- and phoD-harboring bacterial communities24
Long-term combined effects of tillage and rice cultivation with phosphogypsum or farmyard manure on the concentration of salts, minerals, and heavy metals of saline-sodic paddy fields in Northeast Chi24
Assessing the impacts of climate change on crop yields, soil organic carbon sequestration and N2O emissions in wheat–maize rotation systems24
Deformation and pore water pressure change during static and cyclic loading with subsequent shearing on soils with different textures and matric potentials24
Legume cover crops enhance soil organic carbon via microbial necromass in orchard alleyways24
Impacts of different management measures on soil nutrients and stoichiometric characteristics for sloping farmland under erosive environments in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China24
Effects of covering sand with different soil substrates on the formation and development of artificial biocrusts in a natural desert environment24
Soil erodibility and hillslope erosion processes affected by vegetation restoration duration24
Silicon uptake and utilization on Panicum maximum grass modifies C:N:P stoichiometry under warming and soil water deficit24
Water retention characteristics and vegetation growth of biopolymer-treated silt soils24
A high-resolution physical modelling approach to assess runoff and soil erosion in vineyards under different soil managements23
Long-term manuring facilitates glomalin-related soil proteins accumulation by chemical composition shifts and macro-aggregation formation23
Comparison of equivalent soil mass approaches to estimate soil organic carbon stocks under long-term tillage23
Conservation agriculture affects soil organic matter distribution, microbial metabolic capacity and nitrogen turnover under Danish field conditions23
A meta-analysis of the impact of traffic-induced compaction on soil physical properties and grain yield23
Maize root-induced biopores do not influence root growth of subsequently grown maize plants in well aerated, fertilized and repacked soil columns23
Higher microbial C use efficiency in paddy than in adjacent upland soils: evidence from continental scale23
Improving soil quality and wheat yield through diversified crop rotations in the North China Plain23
Responses of greenhouse gas emissions to different straw management methods with the same amount of carbon input in cotton field23
Tillage and nitrogen supply affects maize yield by regulating photosynthetic capacity, hormonal changes and grain filling in the Loess Plateau23
Divergent chemical compositions of soil organic matter size fractions under long-term amendments across a climate gradient23
Long-term manure application to improve soil macroaggregates and plant-available nitrogen in a Mollisol23
Impact of soil and water conservation structures on the spatial variability of topsoil moisture content and crop productivity in semi-arid Ethiopia23
Microbial carbon and phosphorus metabolism regulated by C:N:P stoichiometry stimulates organic carbon accumulation in agricultural soils23
Geometrical and statistical analysis of dynamic crack morphology in shrink-swell soils with addition of maize roots or salinity (NaCl)23
Soil aggregate stability and erosion resistance in response to integration of cover crops and poultry litter in a no-till rainfed soybean cropping system23
Straw burial depth and manure application affect the straw-C and N sequestration: Evidence from 13C & 15N-tracing23
Does no-tillage mitigate the negative effects of harvest compaction on soil pore characteristics in Northeast China?23
Exploring biochar addition impacts on soil erosion under natural rainfall: A study based on four years of field observations on the Loess Plateau22
Tillage-induced microtopography alters time-dependent intrinsic correlation of runoff and sediment yield22
Soil quality indices in a conservation agriculture based rice-mustard cropping system in North-western Indo-Gangetic Plains22
Effect of different underlying surfaces on hydraulic parameters of overland flow22
An overview of natural soil amendments in agriculture22
Deep vertical rotary tillage mitigates salinization hazards and shifts microbial community structure in salt-affected anthropogenic-alluvial soil22
Subsoiling and conversion to conservation tillage enriched nitrogen cycling bacterial communities in sandy soils under long-term maize monoculture22
Combined impact of no-tillage and cover crops on soil carbon stocks and fluxes in maize crops22
Green manuring and crop residue management: Effect on soil organic carbon stock, aggregation, and system productivity in the foothills of Eastern Himalaya (India)22
3D-visualization and quantification of soil porous structure using X-ray micro-tomography scanning under native pasture and crop-livestock systems21
Long-term green manuring enhances crop N uptake and reduces N losses in rice production system21
Interpretation of uniaxial, confined compression test data for agricultural topsoils21
New insights into organic carbon mineralization: Combining soil organic carbon fractions, soil bacterial composition, microbial metabolic potential, and soil metabolites21
Long-term tillage and cropping systems affect soil organic carbon components and mineralization in aggregates in semiarid regions21
No tillage decreases GHG emissions with no crop yield tradeoff at the global scale21
Assessing the fidelity of neural network-based segmentation of soil XCT images based on pore-scale modelling of saturated flow properties21
Deep phosphorus fertilizer placement increases maize productivity by improving root-shoot coordination and photosynthetic performance21
Impact of conservation tillage on the distribution of soil nutrients with depth21
Changes in soil organic carbon fractions and enzyme activities in response to tillage practices in the Loess Plateau of China21
Legume-based crop diversification reinforces soil health and carbon storage driven by microbial biomass and aggregates21
The effect of long-term soil surface mulching on SOC fractions and the carbon management index in a semiarid agroecosystem21
Shear strength of soil-root system under different vegetation restoration modes on the Loess Plateau of China21
Impact of straw-biochar amendments on microbial activity and soil carbon dynamics in wheat-maize system20
Effect of integrated soil fertility management on hydrophysical soil properties and irrigated wheat production in the upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia20
Combining rotary and deep tillage increases crop yields by improving the soil physical structure and accumulating organic carbon of subsoil20
Rotation crop root performance and its effect on soil hydraulic properties in a clayey Utisol20
A fine digital soil mapping by integrating remote sensing-based process model and deep learning method in Northeast China20
Assessing soil structural quality as an indicator of productivity under semi-arid climate20
Prescribed fire and grass mulch impact on selected soil properties and amelioration potentials of amendments under an agricultural field in Ile-Ife, Nigeria20
Rice straw incorporation mobilizes inorganic soil phosphorus by reorienting hysteresis effect under varying hydrothermal regimes in a humid tropical Inceptisol20
Greenhouse gas fluxes in a no-tillage chronosequence in Central Ohio20
Response of leaf, litter, and root ecological stoichiometries to grazing exclosure duration on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau20
Characteristics and controls of inorganic and organic phosphorus transformation during long-term paddy soil evolution20
Mixed planting mode is the best measure to restore soil quality in alpine mines20
Analyzing the impact of grazing and short-term irrigation management on soil mechanical strength of a volcanic ash soil under different types of pastures19
Site-specific seeding for maize production using management zone maps delineated with multi-sensors data fusion scheme19
The impact of recent gully filling practices on wheat yield at the Campiña landscape in Southern Spain19
Biosolids and conservation tillage for rainfed wheat farming in dry Mediterranean climates19
Combining soil carbon storage and crop productivity in partial conservation agriculture of rice-based cropping systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains19
Rill formation and evolution caused by upslope inflow and sediment deposition on freshly tilled loose surfaces19
Optimized tillage can enhance crop tolerance to extreme weather events: Evidence from field experiments and meta-analysis19
Dual-platform micromechanical characterization of soils: Oscillation shear rheometry and spherical indentation19
Irrigation schedule impact on greenhouse gas mitigation, carbon sequestration, and yield improvement of double rice-cropping systems in southern China19
Traction and repeated wheeling – effects on contact area characteristics and stresses in the upper subsoil19
Fitting process-dependence performance of the van Genuchten soil water retention model to simulate the soil water flow19
Hydraulic performance of mole drains and validation of steady-state drainage spacing equations for Mollisols19
Changes in carbon and phosphorus storages and humic substances in a Ferralsol, after tillage and animal manures applications19
Soil health assessment for different tillage and cropping systems to determine sustainable management practices in a humid region18
A study of different agricultural practices over a dozen years: Influence on soil CO2 fixation rates and soil autotrophic microbial communities18
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Large scale study on influence of biopolymer to mitigate wind induced sand erosion with durability analysis18
Soil-water characteristic curves and their estimated hydraulic parameters in no-tilled and conventionally tilled soils18
Spatial and temporal electrical resistivity dynamics in a dense Ultisol under deep tillage and different citrus root-stocks18
Specific cation effects on soil water infiltration and soil aggregate stability–Comparison study on variably and permanently charged soils18
Landslide-impacted soils recover faster biologically than chemically or physically, though recovery also varies with forest type in subtropical China18
Yield, soil Nitrogen content and weed control in six years of conservation agriculture on-farm field trials in Southwest Germany18
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