Special Issue: “Plant Virus Pathogenesis and Disease Control”

Plant development: a Special Issue.

I am very pleased to introduce this Special Issue focusing on plant developmental biology, published in honour of a founding father of the field, Ian Sussex. At its core, developmental biology is about understanding how a single cell, the zygote, becomes a complex multicellular organism with specialised cell types organised into coherent functional patterns. Evolution has provided two particula...

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Functional‒Structural Plant Modelling Special Issue

Most available models for plant cell division are limited to symmetric division with isotropic growth, and often the actual growth of the cell wall is either not considered or is only updated intermittently in a separate time scale from that of the cell expansion mechanics. Abera et al. develop a generic plant cell division algorithm based on biomechanics and ellipse fitting and compare the res...

Special issue on Chagas disease

This special issue of Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz was based on studies presented by invited speakers at the 13th International Congress of Parasitology, which was held in Mexico City from 10-15 August 2014. These speakers participated in symposia on different scenarios of Chagas disease transmission, disease control, congenital transmission of this disease, transmission of Trypanosoma cr...

Special Issue on Novel Robotics and Control

This special issue focuses on the following topic areas: i Biomimetics and locomotion, ii mobile vehicles, iii human-robot systems and haptic interfaces, and iv novel systems modeling and analysis. We believe that this special issue provides a compilation of the most recent developments in the field of robotics and will be an important source of information for current and future researchers. B...