How fungi recognize (and infect) plants | Mennat El Ghalid - a podcast by TED

from 2018-03-27T19:56:43

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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.