Each of the twenty chapters in The Photochemistry of  Carotenoids is written by leading experts in the area of carotenoid  research and gives a comprehensive overview of a particular topic in  the field. The book is organized into five sub-areas: (1) Biosynthetic  pathways and the distribution of carotenoids in photosynthetic  organisms; (2) Structure of carotenoid--chlorophyll protein  complexes; (3) Electronic structure, stereochemistry,  spectrochemistry, spectroscopy, dynamics and radicals; (4)  Eco-physiology and the xanthophyll cycle; and (5) Model systems.  Correlations between the photochemical behavior of carotenoids in  vitro and in vivo are discussed. The various contributions  review the basic hypotheses about how carotenoids function and give  details regarding testing different molecular models using  state-of-the-art experimental methodologies.   The book is intended for use by beginning graduate and advanced  undergraduate students and researchers in Plant Physiology, Ecology,  Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Medicine, and will also be  extremely useful as a general reference on photochemical processes in  Chemistry, Physics and Biology.

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