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Raiding the sweet shop

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A type of sugar transporter has been discovered that exports glucose from cells. In plants, these transporters are targeted by disease-causing microbes that divert sugar production for their own use. See Article p.527

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Figure 1: Pathogen exploitation of plant SWEET genes.

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  1. Nicholas J. Talbot is at the School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK. n.j.talbot@exeter.ac.uk ,

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Talbot, N. Raiding the sweet shop. Nature 468, 510–511 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468510a

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