MYB and infection: Among these TFs, MYB, WRKY, and Ethylene-responsive transcription factor gene families are often reported to be involved in regulating general lignin biosynthesis or lignin accumulation upon pathogen infection in many other plant organisms (Zhong and Ye, 2009; Ma et al., 2017; Xie et al., 2018; Miyamoto et al., 2020).