Above, a leaf from a potato plant infected with potato late blight. Below, Phytophthora infestans, the pathogen that causes potato late blight. The pathogen is the white ball on the right, and it's using a germ tube to drill into a potato plant leaf. To the left of the pathogen is an opening called a stoma, or a pore through which the plant breathes.

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