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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To everyone reading this : you’re amazing <3
SentByHim The way you slice wrist is special.
Practice makes perfect. 🙂
omg wtf wtf omg 🙁
Caroline, you have 1K followers, and zero content. Maybe you should post something for your fans?
Haha I actually have many subs because I was posting videos before ^^ but I stopped because I don’t have much time to make them with my studies…
Good explanation mam☺
Fungi Lives Matter
Me- “I’m about to be so smart”
pfft, yea right.
Hoggy yeah… I quit a minute in lol
same, my mind went: Fungi – Funguy – Funki – Funky town – Won’t you take me to Funky Town! ♪ ♫ ♬
You are smart af. U know how to browse u tube.
Needs more African band
Hoggy – indeed, We haven’t had an African music video for hours. I don’t know what TED are thinking.
great !
Plant communication is fascinating. Thanks TED!
youre profiel picture is intresting, id love to know more
I grow a lot of Milkweed, for Monarchs. As soon as I see a plant with fungus or any of the MANY diseases capable of destroying the plant, I make a (weak) solution of water with a drop of Dawn, spray the plant, and then wash it off vigorously after a few minutes. I realize many fungi come up from the roots: when I suspect THIS, I repot the plant, spraying the roots with the Dawn solution, and repot it in fresh (untainted) soil. Works FOR ME!
Yo so Terrance Mckenna credits human evolution to mushrooms. What if mushrooms really rule the world and are using us to grow plants so they can consume them?!!
Put down the bong.
omg wtf lol *water pipe
Moon SKeetz maybe in your state! Get with the program USA is headed towards nationally legal
Similar to how young men from third world countries recognise the benefit-money-rich Western European countries and infect them by spreading and colonising them.
techniquerules How are they exploiting the population? By giving them jobs and an opportunity to become rich and successful?
You’re right, that’s so oppressive…
internet debates always endup in pointless argument so I’ll just do an info dump to save time, check these out when you feel like it:
Finance as Warfare Micheal Hudson (book)
Noam Chomsky How the world works (book)
Lastly do some research on the IMF, the conditions for their loans to a developing country benefit outside interests over the enrichment of the local population
techniquerules – as for ignorance I studied politics and economic history at college so I do have some ideas of how this world is being run.
Im sure they gave you a complete and balanced education on world history and politics, hence your first comment
techniquerules – I learned many different theories and decided for myself which ones seemed most like reality, rather than the delusional nonsense in the minds of SJWs.
When are we going to begin the research to kill off the biggest infection on this planet? The human race
Research was completed over 50 years ago. Awaiting broad implementation.
Feel free to start with yourself, nobody is stopping you.
Broad implementation is about to start with the next level of AI….
Wow, ed g
NietzscheanMan I wish I had the balls
I clicked on this hoping it wouldnt be political or depressing
i like ur accent..
Beautiful and smart
*The most dangerous fungi is human itself. Make a medicine for that.*
too short
I think the problem is monoculture crop production. We need to transform all public landscapes into a self-sustainable food forest. Where the homeless and general public could have easy access to free food.