TMEM37 and infection: The rice pathogenesis-related proteins PR1, PR5, and PR10 were selected for validation (Maruthasalam et al., 2007; Wu et al., 2011), as was WRKY72, a member of the WRKY gene superfamily in rice whose expression is reportedly induced expression during the infection of Magnaporthe oryzae, Ustilaginoidea virens and X. oryzae pv.