Biochemical Systematics and Ecology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering chemotaxonomy and ecology. Tony Swain, one of the first editors of Phytochemistry started the sister journal Biochemical Systematics in 1973. It was renamed Biochemical Systematics and Ecology in the next year. The editors-in-chief are Severina Pacifico (UniversitÃÂ degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) and Christian Zidorn (Kiel University).