" ... we demonstrated that the entropy of the chemiluminescence time series is similar to random Poisson signals." {Credits 1} The problem that I see with this kind of experiments (and because that this section may be partially flawed) is that don't take into account that: 1- As mentioned in [1] active biophotons (for example those glutamate induced) are those that are more biologically significant (information carriers) but there is a background biophoton emission that is more massive and is what is detected using solely photo counting techniques. 2- As is mentioned in various papers [2-5] the relevant biophotons are probably guided by biological waveguides (like microtubules or actin filaments) and are not those that are more detected externally. 3- There is incoming evidence that other factors that are hidden in a solely photocount analysis are information carriers, like spectral power densities[6], spectral analysis [7] and others, and that, in any case, biophotons carry information (see bystander and autooptic papers in subsection [8]). And, as various papers point out in this website, reactive oxygen species are not the unique source of biophotons. REFERENCES {Credits 1} 🎪 Saeidfirozeh, H., Shafiekhani, A., Cifra, M. et al. Endogenous Chemiluminescence from Germinating Arabidopsis Thaliana Seeds. Sci Rep 8, 16231 (2018) doi:10.1038/s41598-018-34485-6. © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. |
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