MYB and infection: We found that more rice CDEGs were upregulated during late infection stages (72 to 96 hpi) compared to early infection stages (8 to 48 hpi), and most of them were assigned terms such as ‘PR-proteins,’ ‘SA,’ ‘JA,’ ‘ethylene,’ ‘WRKY,’ ‘MYB,’ ‘secondary metabolites,’ ‘glutathione-S-transferase,’ and ‘respiratory burst’ (Figure 2).