When attacking a plant, pathogens must deliver proteins into their victim's cells. The causal agent of potato late blight uses a system that is remarkably similar to that used by the malaria parasite in red blood cells.
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Talbot, N. Deadly special deliveries. Nature 450, 41–43 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450041a
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