Analyzing autophagy in Magnaporthe oryzae

Magnaporthe oryzae is an import ant plant pathogenic fungus that greatly threatens the world's food security. Both genome-wide and individual gene studies have shown that the pathogenicity of the fungus is severely dependent on the intracellular autophagy process during appressoria development.(1-6) This protocol discusses a systematic methodology to discover and monitor autophagy-related (ATG) genes in M. oryzae.