# How fungi recognize (and infect) plants

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2017
- Speaker: Mennat El Ghalid
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/mennat_el_ghalid_how_fungi_recognize_and_infect_plants)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How fungi recognize (and infect) plants](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/mennat_el_ghalid_how_fungi_recognize_and_infect_plants/b1be20097b78), 5 min (TED's player)