A sensor kinase controls turgor-driven plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.

Conidia from null mutants strains for the genes CDC42, RHO4, BUF1, SLN1 as well as the wild-type Guy11 were harvested and placed on an inductive surface. After 16 hours developing appressoria were harvested and transcript abundance analysed using RNA-seq, two biological replicates per sample. Global transcript abundance was profiled in four null mutants of Magnaporthe oryzae during appressorium development on an inductive surface (16 hours after condia were placed on surface).