diff --git a/python/taichi/aot/utils.py b/python/taichi/aot/utils.py
index 1920b65ad5f4d4..4195e7ba3bd9a1 100644
--- a/python/taichi/aot/utils.py
+++ b/python/taichi/aot/utils.py
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 from taichi.lang._ndarray import ScalarNdarray
-from taichi.lang._texture import FORMAT2TY_CH, Texture
+from taichi.lang._texture import Texture
 from taichi.lang.exception import TaichiCompilationError
 from taichi.lang.matrix import Matrix, MatrixNdarray, MatrixType, VectorNdarray
 from taichi.lang.util import cook_dtype
 from taichi.types.annotations import template
 from taichi.types.ndarray_type import NdarrayType
-from taichi.types.texture_type import RWTextureType, TextureType
+from taichi.types.texture_type import TY_CH2FORMAT, RWTextureType, TextureType
 
-template_types = (NdarrayType, template)
+template_types = (NdarrayType, TextureType, template)
 
 
 def check_type_match(lhs, rhs):
@@ -99,14 +99,8 @@ def produce_injected_args(kernel, symbolic_args=None):
                     'Texture type annotation doesn\'t have enough information for aot. Please either specify the channel_format, shape and num_channels in the graph arg declaration.'
                 )
             texture_shape = tuple(symbolic_args[i].texture_shape)
-            # FIXME: (penguinliong) dtype + num_channels -> texel format.
-            fmt = None
-            for (fmt2, (channel_format2,
-                        num_channels2)) in FORMAT2TY_CH.items():
-                if channel_format2 == symbolic_args[i].channel_format(
-                ) and num_channels2 == symbolic_args[i].num_channels:
-                    fmt = fmt2
-                    break
+            fmt = TY_CH2FORMAT[(symbolic_args[i].channel_format,
+                                symbolic_args[i].num_channels)]
             injected_args.append(Texture(fmt, texture_shape))
         elif isinstance(anno, MatrixType):
             if not isinstance(symbolic_args[i], list):
diff --git a/tests/python/test_aot.py b/tests/python/test_aot.py
index f25914e8ca4ddc..6dbc91c729f06f 100644
--- a/tests/python/test_aot.py
+++ b/tests/python/test_aot.py
@@ -665,3 +665,20 @@ def write(tex: ti.types.rw_texture(num_dimensions=2,
     m.add_kernel(write)
     with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
         m.save(tmpdir)
+
+
+@test_utils.test(arch=[ti.vulkan])
+def test_read_kernel_with_texture():
+    @ti.kernel
+    def read(tex: ti.types.texture(num_dimensions=2), arr: ti.types.ndarray()):
+        for i, j in arr:
+            arr[i, j] = tex.fetch(ti.Vector([i, j]), 0).x
+
+    res = (128, 128)
+    tex = ti.Texture(ti.Format.r32f, res)
+    arr = ti.ndarray(ti.f32, res)
+
+    m = ti.aot.Module()
+    m.add_kernel(read, template_args={"tex": tex, "arr": arr})
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
+        m.save(tmpdir)