Suppression of abscisic acid (ABA) and pathogen infection induced by OsMAPK5 may result in a constitutive expression of PR genes such as PR1 and PR10, indicating that OsMAPK5 negatively regulates fungal and bacterial disease resistance (Xiong and Yang, 2003; Xie et al., 2014; Bertini et al., 2018). Here, TMEM37 is linked to infection.