Main description:

This series is world-renowned as the leading compilation of current reviews of this vast field. Internationally acclaimed for more than forty years, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology, founded by the late Professor R.H.F. Manske, continues to provide outstanding coverage of this rapidly expanding field. Each volume provides, through its distinguished authors, up-to-date and detailed coverage of particular classes or sources of alkaloids.

Contents:

Preface (G.A. Cordell).

1. Regulation of Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Plants (P.J. Facchini).

2. Ergot Alkaloids - Biology and Molecular Biology (C.L. Schardl et al.).

3. Chemical and Biological Aspects of Narcissus Alkaloids (J. Bastida et al.).

4. Bisindole Alkaloids (Toh-Seok Kam, Yeun-Mun Choo).