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How fungi recognize (and infect) plants

Mennat El Ghalid · TED

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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.

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Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2017
Speaker
Mennat El Ghalid
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
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