Measurement of Sugar Transport Processes (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Measurement of Sugar Transport Processes

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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.

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Dirk Schwachtje

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