Athena International Publishing regrets to announce that Growth and Form will be discontinued. Despite efforts to expand the Editorial Board and revise the editorial strategy aimed at attracting more submissions, the journal did not succeed to achieve a regular content flow since transferring from Atlantis Press in 2022. Going forward, articles fitting the scope of Growth and Form will be transferred for consideration to be published in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Square Bamboos and the Geometree (ISSBG). The proceedings of the inaugural edition of this annual event have also been published by Athena as part of the series Athena Transactions in Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Following this decision, Growth and Form is no longer open for new submissions effective immediately. The archive of published articles will remain available on the Athena platform, as well as in the e-Depot of the National Library of The Netherlands. All metrics for the journal will continue to be updated where relevant.

As noted by the Editor-in-Chief in his Editorial published in Volume 3, Issue 1-2 of Growth and Form, the restructuring and expansion of the journal's Editorial Board has now been completed. The number of areas/sections has been expanded from the original three ("Botany/Biology", "Geometry" and "Mathematics") to six (adding "Mathematics Education", "Physics" and "Technology") with three Editors covering each area. We welcome eight new Editorial Board members in total from the United States, Italy, Croatia, Czech Republic and Portugal. The aim of these changes is to broaden the number of application areas covered by the journal, as well as the number of Editors affiliated with the journal, with the ultimate goal to attract more submissions and to improve the chance of getting Growth and Form accepted for indexation in the major databases in the long term. Please refer to the journal's Editorial Board page for a complete overview of the resulting board after these changes.