Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots
Abstract
The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as OMT promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. Particularly, the invention provides transgenic plants of rice and sugarcane that have been modified such that expression of a heterologous coding sequence is directed by an OMT promoter and is limited to stem tissues or may be upregulated by the presence of a defense-inducing agent. The invention also discloses methods for producing the expression vectors and transgenic plants.
Subject
800/287435/252.3
435/320.1
435/419
435/468
435/471
536/24.1
800/302
800/320
C12N 9/1007
C12N 15/8226
C12N 15/8238
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Citation
Mirkov, Erik T.; Damaj, Mona B.; Reddy, Avutu; Thomas, Terry L.; Rathore, Keerti S.; Emani, Chandrakanth; Kumpatla, Siva Prasad (2008). Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots. United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /176869.