Analyzing autophagy in Magnaporthe oryzae

Abstract

Magnaporthe oryzae is an important 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. © 2011 Landes Bioscience.