Editorial: Advances in multi-use floating islands

Editorial: Advances in Multi-Robot Systems

As research progresses in distributed robotic systems, more and more aspects of multi-robot systems are being explored. This special issue on Multi-Robot Systems provides a broad sampling of the research that is currently ongoing in the field of distributed mobile robot systems. To help categorize this research, we have identified seven primary research topics within multi-robot systems — biolo...

Editorial: Nanotechnological Advances in Biosensors

A biosensor is a physicochemical or hybrid physical-chemical-biological device that detects a biological molecule, organism, or process. Because of the nature of their targets, biosensors need to be faster, smaller, more sensitive, and more specific than nearly all of their physicochemical counterparts or the traditional methods that they are designed to replace. Speed is of the essence in medi...

Editorial: Advances in Ascochyta Research

Water quality improvement with artificial floating islands

As the natural purification of the traditional artificial floating island is very slow, the purpose of this research is to explore the efficiency of the green energy artificial floating island (GAFI) to improve water quality. We constructed experimental models near the bank of Lize Lake at MingDao University in Taiwan, where the surrounding waters and wastewater from the dormitories served as t...

Editorial: Recent Advances in Flowering Time Control

1 Plant Breeding Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2 Plant Breeding Institute, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, Molecular Cell Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany, Cluster of Excellence in...