Type III solar radio bursts are among the most intense radio emissions in the solar system and are produced via multi-stage process, that includes generation of Langmuir waves by an energetic electron beam and their further conversion into electromagnetic emission at fundamental frequency or its harmonic. Ubiquitous random density fluctuations in solar wind play an important role on each stage of this process and we attempt to cover this role in the most complete manner. We start with the theory of beam-plasma interaction, showing that density fluctuations alter the interaction of the electron beam and plasma waves. We emphasize that recent probabilistic model of beam-plasma interaction allows to obtain predictions that are well confirmed b...