ABSTRACT
The coordinated charge of an organized army is a well-recognized strategy. Forces are chosen, equipped, armed, and trained to accomplish a specific objective. The execution of the objective is the result of a reasoned and planned strategy-an attack strategy. In the absence of the power to reason, do pathogens attack plants? Or is the expression of disease in plants simply the result of chance dissemination, impact, and infection of susceptible hosts by pathogenic organisms? If pathogens do attack plants, how do they do so?
