STAC3 and infection: NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC) domain proteins play a role in diverse processes, including development, morphogenesis, senescence, and stress responses and studies show that ATAF1 and ATAF2 genes were highly induced by wounding and pathogen infection (Ooka et al., 2003; Delessert et al., 2005; Wang et al., 2009).