title: The endless tale of endobacteria: a conversation with Paola Bonfante.
abstract: January 1974: In the dark of the electron microscope room, Paola Bonfante started up and looked again at the greenish screen; she was indeed looking at a round body very similar to a bacterium. Unexpectedly, this faint body was inside the cytoplasm of a mycorrhizal symbiotic fungus, which was inside the root cells of a plant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Viale Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italy. Electronic address: paola.bonfante@unito.it.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonfante
mesh_terms: D038821:Mycorrhizae / Q000502:physiology*; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000382:microbiology*; D013559:Symbiosis