Flooding tolerance / Pamela Ronald -- Drought tolerance adaptive mechanisms / Paul E. Verslues -- Stomatal regulation of plant water status / Yoshiyuki Murata -- Root-associated stress response networks / Philip N. Benfey -- Low temperature tolerance / Matsuo Uemura -- Salinity tolerance / Stuart Roy -- Heavy metal tolerance / Leon V. Kochian -- Epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress response / Viswanathan Chinnusamy -- Genomics of plant abiotic stress tolerance / Hans J. Bohnert -- QTL and association mapping for plant abiotic stress tolerance trait identification and genetic introgression for crop improvement / Peter Langridge.