General stress response of a model bacterium -- Moss as a model system for plant stress responses -- Emerging trends in functional genomics for stress tolerance in crop plants -- Stress physiology of higher plants: cross-talk between abiotic and biotic stress signaling -- Jasmonates in stress, growth, and development -- Brassinosteroids confer stress tolerance -- Cold, salinity, and drought stress -- Heavy metal stress in plants -- Systematic analysis of superoxide-dependent signaling in plant cells: usefulness and specificity of methyl viologen application -- Insights into Arabidopsis abiotic stress response from the AtGenExpress expression profile dataset -- Integrative approaches to elucidate and analyze protein interaction and signaling networks