Abstract:Phyllotaxis, a keystone problem in structural plant biology, has attracted the interdisciplinary interest of biologists, mathematicians, physicists, crystallographers and, more recently, computer scientists for almost two centuries. The continuing interest in phyllotaxis has led to this special issue, bringing together nine papers from authors who responded to our invitation or call for papers from early 2016. We thank the authors for their contributions, which we have the pleasure of presenting here.The paper… Show more
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