How fungi recognize (and infect) plants

Name: How fungi recognize (and infect) plants
Uploaded: 2018-03-27T19:56:43Z
Duration: 4 min 26 s
Description: Each year, the world loses enough food to feed half a billion people to fungi, the most destructive pathogens of plants. Mycologist and TED Fellow Mennat El Ghalid explains how a breakthrough in our understanding of the molecular signals fungi use to attack plants could disrupt this interaction -- and save our crops.

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Mennat El Ghalid |

TEDGlobal 2017

• August 2017

Each year, the world loses enough food to feed half a billion people to fungi, the most destructive pathogens of plants. Mycologist and TED Fellow Mennat El Ghalid explains how a breakthrough in our understanding of the molecular signals fungi use to attack plants could disrupt this interaction -- and save our crops.