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Measurement of Sugar Transport Processes

Caption: Using radioactive short-lived carbon isotopes (11C, with a half-life of 20.4 minutes), scientists have measured transport processes of sugars after plant-insect interaction in wild type and transgenic plants.

Credit: Dirk Schwachtje

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