We investigated whether the more rapid activation of the defence network was a result of differential basal expression of key TFs such that the same fold change in expression following infection results in significantly different absolute expression levels (expression level‐only genes in Dataset S3 and Figure S2b) or whether there was differential induction/repression of TF genes after inoculation at subjective dawn versus subjective night leading to different expression levels (both a fold change and expression level difference in Dataset S3 and Figure S2c). Here, TF is linked to infection.