How fungi recognize (and infect) plants | Mennat El Ghalid
TED Talks Science and Medicine
English - March 27, 2018 19:56 - 4 minutes - 34.8 MB Video - ★★★★ - 742 ratingsScience ted tedtalks ted talks inspiration creativity tech demo education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.