3.3. Metabolism of glucose, sucrose and mannitol
After labeling, radioactivity of 14C-glucose and 14C-sucrose were decreased to 14.3 1.6 and 14.0 0.5% of applied radioactivities, respectively, but that of 14C-mannitol was decreased to 21.1 2.9% of applied radioactivity (mean of three replicates SE). The differences between mannitol and glucose or sucrose were significant at the 5% level by the Fisher’s Least Significant
Difference test.