Fifty-five years of research on photosynthesis, chloroplasts and stress physiology of plants: 1958 - 2013 -- Alfred Russel Wallace: Self-Educated Genius and Polymath -- The role of plasma membrane H+-ATPase in salinity stress of plants -- Selenium in Plants -- Interplay of water and nutrient transport: A whole-plant perspective -- Electrical signaling in plants -- Adaptations of chloroplastic metabolism in halophytic plants -- CAM-like traits in C3 plants: biochemistry and stomatal behavior -- Stability as a Phenomenon Emergent from Plasticity - Complexity - Diversity in Eco-Physiology -- The proposed anti-herbivory roles of white leaf variegation -- Solar UV radiation and plant litter decomposition -- Interspecific competition in Arabidopsis thaliana - a short review on how a knowledge gap is starting to close -- Growth limitation and C-relations in trees under environmental stress -- Consequences of changing precipitation patterns for productivity and diversity in grassland ecosystems -- Do plant responses to tropospheric ozone translate into ecosystem effects?.