Dr. Elena Erika Fedorova has been the head of the lab (The Group of Plant-Microbial Interactions), K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Moscow, Russia, since 2018. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3953-1282. Worked as post-doc and sen.sci. in • University of Guelph, Canada,1992- 1993, Instituto Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica, Naples, Italy,• 1994-1997,• Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,1997 -1998, Institut des Sciences Vegetales, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France,• 1999-2001,•Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain, 2002 -2004,• Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 2004 – 2017 .