A dozen papers from a June-to-July 1993 meeting in Pacific Grove, California summarize the latest advances by biochemists and molecular biologists in modifying the patterns of secondary metabolisms in plants, and the application of the resulting metabolites in such areas as food, pigments, pharmaceu

In this volume of Recent Advances in Phytochmistry you will find a record of the pioneering attempts of plant biochemists and molecular biologists to modify the patterns of secondary metabolism in plants, as presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, in Asilomar, California, on June 27 -July I, 1993. The studies described here represent a marriage of the newest of technologies with one of the oldest human activities, exploitation of plant chemistry. They also represent the beginning of a new era of phytochemical research, an era that will undoubtedly...