Preface

Articles in the same Issue

1. Preface
2. Carotenoid structures, old and new problems
3. Carotenoids of lower plants - recent progress
4. New structures of carotenoids in marine animals
5. Carotenogenic enzymes from Neurospora
6. Carotenogenic enzymes from phycomyces
7. Carotenogenic enzymes from Capsicum chromoplasts
8. Carotenoid metabolism in animals: a biochemist's view
9. Absorption, retention and metabolic transformations of carotenoids in rainbow trout, salmon and chicken
10. Biodegradation of carotenoids - an important route to aroma compounds
11. Stable isotopes in carotenoid biochemistry
12. Retinoids: an overview of some natural carotenoid metabolites and their synthetic analogs
13. Carotenoids and cancer prevention - experimental and epidemiological studies
14. Carotenoids in photosynthesis
15. Carotenoids in plant photoprotection
16. Advances in the synthesis of optically active carotenoids
17. Synthetic advances in the carotenoid field
18. The synthesis of 13C-labelled retinals
19. Recent advances in double bond formation
20. Bioorganic studies with rhodopsin
21. Mechanism of photoregulation of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants
22. Resonance Raman spectroscopy of carotenoids and carotenoid-containing systems
23. HPLC - a powerful tool in carotenoid research
24. NMR of carotenoids - new experimental techniques