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A PREVIOUS autoradiographic study1 suggested that carbohydrate was not translocated from small unproductive tillers to the main shoot and other spike-producing tillers in wheat. We have now shown, using a more sensitive technique for the recovery of radioactivity, that radiocarbon can be recovered in the growing points of spike-developing shoots of young plants, a small tiller of which has been dosed with 14CO2.
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LUPTON, F., PINTHUS, M. Carbohydrate Translocation from Small Tillers to Spike-producing Shoots in Wheat. Nature 221, 483–484 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221483a0
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