In fact, increase in POX, SOD and PAL activities, accumulation of phenolics and cell wall modification/lignification at the infection sites were previously observed during the coffee resistance to H. vastatrix (Silva et al., 2002, 2008; De Nardi et al., 2006; Guerra-Guimarães et al., 2009, 2015; Leitão et al., 2011). This evidence concerns the gene SOD1 and infection.