INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTS IN PLANT ADAPTATION -- 1 The new science of adaptation: an introduction -- 2 Discussion report: an intellectual framework for a plant adaptation science -- 3 Pathways to plant population genomics -- 4 Evolvability and the raw materials for adaptation -- 5 Nucleocytoplasmic incompatibility fosters speciation -- 6 Discussion report: answered and unanswered questions in plant adaptation -- APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PLANT ADAPTATION -- 7 Plant population genomics, linkage disequilibrium mapping, and the genetics of adaptation -- 8 Genomic approaches to identifying quantitative trait loci: lessons from Arabidopsis thaliana -- 9 Experimental analysis of adaptive landscape topographies -- 10 Terpene synthases and the mediation of plant-insect ecological interactions by terpenoids: a mini-review -- 11 Adaptation in plant speciation: evidence for the role of selection in the evolution of isolating barriers between plant species -- 12 Discussion report: New methods and tools for plant adaptation - what do we need? -- TRAITS, POPULATIONS, AND SPECIES: CASE STUDIES IN PLANT ADAPTATION -- 13 Trends in the evolution of edaphic specialists with an example of parallel evolution in the Lasthenia californica complex -- 14 Floral adaptations and biotic and abiotic selection pressures -- 15 Polyploidy and plant adaptation: a framework for future research -- 16 Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in a new "model" plant: Arabidopsis lyrata -- 17 Natural variation among accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana: beyond the flowering date, what morphological traits are relevant to study adaptation? -- 18 The study of ancient adaptation: a case study of a phytochrome gene pair from early-diverging angiosperms -- 19 The variable nature of herbivore defense: evidence for a rapidly diverging Kunitz trypsin inhibitor gene in Populus.

List of participants -- Index.