In contrast to the second edition, the third edition of ‘‘Fungi and Food Spoilage’’ is evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

Emphasis on structure activity relationship, molecules in 3-D and spectroscopic methods based on homologous series.

This edition covers all important areas of the chemical industry, yet it is reasonable that it can be covered in 40 hours of lecture.

This book offers a balanced mixture of practice-oriented information and theoretical background as well as numerous references, clear illustrations, and useful data tables.

This explains the ongoing success of the earlier editions of this book. However, since the amount of available data has considerably increased over the years, we decided to prepare an entirely new manuscript.

Although numerical data are, in principle, universal, the compilations presented in this book are extensively annotated and interleaved with text.

This volume presents three timely reviews on alkaloids: Chapter 1 reviews the homoerythrina and related alkaloids. a group of compounds occurring in seventeen species that are native to countries bordering the western Pacific.