Amino acids play a role in the defence mechanisms and stress responses of plants, as well as in food quality and safety for humans and animals. This book collates chapters on plant enzymes and metabolism, modulation, molecular aspects, secondary products, ecology, the environment and mammalian nutrition and toxicology.

Contributions by: G Osuji, A Raychaudhuri, Z-H He, A.O Hudson, C Sengupta-Gopalan, S.M Duff, F Gallardo, E Gonzales-Vigil, F.J Corpas, Autar K Mattoo, R Hoefgen, I Garcia, R Azevedo, R Ingle, L.V Nguyen, E Planchet, S Okumoto, S Pfautsch, J.W Chandler, A Ishihara, M Banon Arnao, H Stotz, S.O Duke, D.A Saltmiras, E Lewinsohn, J Thomas, S Rutherfurd, S.C Minocha, C.L Levesque