In NAD, several LOX genes, involved in JA production, were induced at later stage of infection while the ET signaling genes (i.e., CRF, RAP, ERF) were early up-regulated; among them the ERF transcription factors, known to be involved in the regulation of JA-dependent defenses (Berrocal-Lobo and Molina, 2007), were the most retrieved. This evidence concerns the gene ERF and infection.