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Information theory and plant growth substance analysis
Author(s) -
SCOTT IAN M.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
plant, cell and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.646
H-Index - 200
eISSN - 1365-3040
pISSN - 0140-7791
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3040.1982.tb00931.x
Subject(s) - plant growth , sample (material) , substance use , identity (music) , computer science , psychology , biology , chemistry , botany , chromatography , philosophy , clinical psychology , aesthetics
. Reeve & Crozier (1980) have recently proposed a method of evaluating the accuracy of a plant growth substance analysis by using information theory to estimate whether the analysis would distinguish the growth substance from all other components of the sample. In the present article, it is argued that their method requires knowledge of the relevant analytical characteristics of all potential components of the sample, and hence is not applicable to plant extracts. Instead, the identity of a growth substance in a plant extract can only be conclusively established using techniques which yield information on its chemical structure.