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TED Talks Science and Medicine

How fungi recognize (and infect) plants | Mennat El Ghalid

TED Talks Science and Medicine

TED

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4.2 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

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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