A comparative study of maize kernels infected with A. flavus and F. verticillioides identified several candidate genes such as PR-1, 10,4,5,10.1; chitinase, CC-NBS-LRR, LRR-RLK, and Thaumatin-like proteins that showed temporal expression patterns during infection/stress (Shu et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene TMEM37 and infection.