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

An episode of [TED Talks Science and Medicine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/470623801), 27 Mar 2018, 4:26.

Audio: https://download.ted.com/products/99987.mp4?apikey=172BB350-0011

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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