Special Issue: “Biological Control of Pre- and Postharvest Fungal Diseases”

Biological control of postharvest diseases of fruits.

Losses from postharvest fruit diseases range from 1 to 20 percent in the United States, depending on the commodity. The application of fungicides to fruits after harvest to reduce decay has been increasingly curtailed by the development of pathogen resistance to many key fungicides, the lack of replacement fungicides, negative public perception regarding the safety of pesticides and consequent ...

Chitosan as a potential natural compound to control pre and postharvest diseases of horticultural commodities

Chitosan, a given name to a deacetylated form of chitin, is a natural biodegradable compound derived from crustaceous shells such as crabs and shrimps, whose main attributes corresponds to its polycationic nature. Chitosan has been proven to control numerous pre and postharvest diseases on various horticultural commodities. It has been reported that both soil and foliar plant pathogens fungal, ...

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Special Issue on Querying Biological Sequences

The sequencing and annotation of entire genomes has enriched the content of biological sequence databases such that new methods of sequence analysis, comparison and retrieval are being invented and rerun on an increasingly regular basis, generating new and more complete biological information. Examples include full genome comparisons and phylogenetic footprinting. Simple identification of homol...

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...