ABSTRACT: The goal of the microarray experiment was to identify defense genes that were differentially expressed in the Arabidopsis mutants med16, med8, elp2, wild type in response to infection of the necrotrophic fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Results indicated that, compared with the wild type, the jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthesis genes LOX3, AOC3, and OPR3, ethylene (ET) biosynthesis genes ACS2 and ACS8, as well as salicylic acid (SA) biosynthesis genes ICS1 and EDS5 were up-regulated in med16 in local tissues at 1 day post-inoculation (dpi) and/or systemic tissues at 4 dpi. Surprisingly, however, while a number of SA pathway genes (EDS1, PAD4, NPR1, WRKY18, WRKY38, WRKY53, PR1, and PR2) and several JA-regulated wound-responsive genes (MYC2, JAR1, VSP1, and VSP2) were up-regulated in med16, a group of JA/ET-regulated defense genes (ORA59, ERF1, ERF14, PDF1.2, PDF1.2b, PDF1.2c, PDF1.3, PR4, and ChiB) and PR5 were down-regulated. On the other hand, only a few of these genes were differentially expressed between med8 or elp2 and the wild type.