Paola Bonfante - Top Italian Scientist in Natural & Environmental Sciences
Paola Bonfante is a Professor Emerita of plant biology at the University of Turin, she has studied symbiosis between fungi and plants (mycorrhizae), associations that involve 90% of plants with significant impacts on ecosystems, as well as on agriculture. Using cellular and molecular biology investigated the biological-functional diversity of mycorrhizal fungi and how they communicate and interact with the host plant. She discovered endobacteria living inside mycorrhizal fungi and with omic approaches she described how they modulate some functional traits of fungal hosts.
Biology of Plant-Microorganism Interactions


Rank: 3
Women's Rank: 1
H-Index: 108
Citations: 36932
Nation: Italy
Area: plant biology
Macroarea: Natural & Environmental Sciences
Italian Institution(s): Università degli Studi di Torino  and  Accademia dei Lincei
Email: paola.bonfante@unito.it
Notes: Retired. Professor Emerita.
Rank: 3
Women's Rank: 1
H-Index: 108
Citations: 36932
Nation: Italy
Area: plant biology
Macroarea: Natural & Environmental Sciences
Italian Institution(s): Università degli Studi di Torino  and  Accademia dei Lincei
Email: paola.bonfante@unito.it
Notes:  Retired.  Professor Emerita.