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Rice blast disease is a major threat to rice production worldwide, but the mechanisms underlying rice resistance to the causal agent  Magnaporthe oryzae  remain elusive. Therefore, we carried out a transcriptome study on rice early defense response to  M. oryzae . We found that the transcriptional profiles of rice compatible and incompatible interactions with  M. oryzae  were mostly similar, with genes regulated more prominently in the incompatible interactions. The functional analysis showed that the genes involved in signaling and secondary metabolism were extensively up-regulated. In particular,  WRKY  transcription factor genes were significantly enriched among the up-regulated genes. Overexpressing one of these  WRKY  genes,  OsWRKY47 , in transgenic rice plants conferred enhanced resistance against rice blast fungus. Our results revealed the sophisticated transcriptional reprogramming of signaling and metabolic pathways during rice early response to  M. oryzae  and demonstrated the critical roles of WRKY transcription factors in rice blast resistance.

Transcriptional Profiling of Rice Early Response to Magnaporthe oryzae Identified OsWRKYs as Important Regulators in Rice Blast Resistance