At day 1 post infection, significantly fewer transcripts encoding plant cell wall degrading enzymes, including cellulases, endo-glucanases, exo-glucanases and beta-glucanases were 50–80% less abundant while hemi-cellulases such as endo-beta-xylanases, beta-mannosidases, alpha-xylosidases, alpha-galactosidases and alpha-I-arabinofuranosidases wer 90% less abundant in BN1703.2 compared to their untransformed counterparts. Here, GLA is linked to infection.