Biological efficiency in processing information in green plants
Biological efficiency in processing information in green plants
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DOI：
10.1098/rspa.2022.0809
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发表时间：
2023-08-30
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Trewavas，Anthony J.
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作者：
Brody，Dorje C.;Trewavas，Anthony J.
环境信息的检测和处理是所有生命系统的基本属性。这篇文章探讨了植物如何有效地处理这些信息的问题，认为不同物种之间的效率差异可能有助于解释不同的生存。信息传递的主要途径，即信号转导，已经相对较好地理解。据指出，根据目前的理解，删除此类信息可能与获取此类信息同等重要。这反过来又可以提供一种简单的方法来量化工厂获取的信息和这样做的效率。然而，野生植物生活在嘈杂的环境中。在开放系统的量子理论中可以找到一个处理这种情况的有用的类比，其中的过程既有很好的特征，也有很好的理解，不像植物中的过程。本文从量子信息处理的角度发展了这一主题，并提供了一种将这种量子表征转移到生物动力学情况的方法。文章最后讨论了通信理论，表明目前可用于调查信息处理的实验结果缺乏，但建议如何在这一重要方案中取得进展。
The detection and processing of environmental information is a fundamental attribute of all living systems. This article approaches the question of how efficiently plants process that information, considering it likely that differential efficiency among different species may help explain differential survival. The primary routes of information transfer, that is, signal transduction, are relatively well understood. It is pointed out, based on current understanding, that erasure of such information may be of equal importance to its acquisition. This in turn could provide a simple means of quantifying the acquisition of information by a plant and the efficiency in doing so. However, wild plants live in an environment that is noisy. A useful analogy to deal with such situations can be found in quantum theory of open systems, wherein processes are both well-characterized and well understood, unlike those in plants. This paper develops this theme from quantum information processing and provides a mean of transferring such quantum characterization to biological dynamical situations. The article concludes with discussion on communication theory, indicating that there is a dearth of experimental results that can currently be used to investigate information processing but suggesting how progress can be made in this important programme.