Infect
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1. To become established in a parasitic relationship with a host plant.
Initial infection process, in this case the spore germinates producing an appressorium providing anchorage for invasion by the fungus
This is a picture of a monarch butterfly infected with parasitic organisms.
Source: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~saltizer/Lab/Research/