Editorial: Advances in Oscillating Reactions

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

Theory for Diffusion-Limited Oscillating Chemical Reactions

A kinetic description of lattice-gas automaton models for reaction-diffusion systems is presented. It provides corrections to the mean field rate equations in the diffusion-limited regime. When applied to the two-species Maginu model, the theory gives an excellent quantitative prediction of the effect of slow diffusion on the periodic oscillations of the average concentrations in a spatially ho...

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...

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...