Technological advances in studies of plant adaptation / José G. Vallarino and Sonia Osorio -- Use of natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana to study adaptation / Lisa M. Smith and Roosa A.E. Laitinen -- Seed dormancy, longevity, and their adaptation / Thu-Phyong Nguyen and Leónie Bentsink -- The "gatekeeper" concept : cell-type specific molecular mechanisms of plant adaptation to abiotic stress / Sam W. Henderson and Matthew Gilliham -- Regulatory and biosynthetic mechanisms underlying plant chemical defense responses to biotic stresses / William R. Chezem and Nicole K. Clay -- Role of small RNAs in regulation of plant responses to stress / Luis A.A. Toledo-Filho and Sascha Laubinger -- Adaptation of flower form : an evo-devo approach to study adaptive evolution in flower morphology / Roxana Yockteng, Ana M.R. Almeida, Alma Piñeyro-Nelson, and Chelsea D. Specht -- Computational approaches to dissect and understand mechanisms of adaptation / Sabrina Kleessen and Zoran Nikoloski -- From the greenhouse to the real world : Arabidopsis field trials and applications / Karin Köhl and Roosa A.E. Laitinen.