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For the first time, this book describes a comprehensive treatment of new psychoactive species with their content of indole alkaloids. A detailed comparison is evaluated of the alkaloids from known higher fungi with the new species which were evaluated in the last 30 years Since 1983, the author has been worked in this area and therefore some of the species were detected by his research team for the first time with a mycological diagnosis and described through own ,modern analyses . Many figures and tables yield to a deep understanding of this fascinating species of the fungal world.

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Gartz, Jochen
Dr.Jochen Gartz, 64,lives in Leipzig, Germany. He studied organic chemistry from 1972 to 1980 and later he worked in the pharmaceutical industry. Since 1983, he studied the psychoactive mushrooms in Germany and after 1986 in Europe, in South Africa and the U.S.A. as well as in Canada. These extensive studies yielded new species from these Areas.

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