Iduna Arduini is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Applied Plant Sciences at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the University of Pisa, Italy. She graduated in Biological Sciences in 1988 and achieved a PhD in Agricultural Biology in 1994. Her research activities focus on (i) the effect of heavy metals on plants; (ii) the natural regeneration of forest ecosystems; (iii) the yield determination of cereal crops in response to genotype, environmental conditions, and crop management; (iv) the plant-to-plant interactions of cereals and legumes in sole crops and intercrops; (v) the sensitivity to waterlogging of legume and cereal crops; and (vi) buckwheat growth in Mediterranean conditions. Currently, her research interests are oriented to invasive alien species, with a focus on the effect of invaders on seed bank ecology.