STAC3 and bacterial infectious disease: Interestingly, it was seen that for the genes responding to bacterial infection in the resistant cultivar, the number of up-regulated genes that contained Abscisic acid Response Elements (ABREs), Heat Shock Elements (HSEs) and NAM, ATAF, and CUC (NAC) elements was significantly higher than expected (Table 2; z-score, p<0.05).