TED Talks

Mennat El Ghalid: How fungi recognize (and infect) plants (2018x101)

: 27, 2018

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.