TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL ELEMENTS AND USES THEREFOR

摘要

This invention discloses transcriptional control elements for use in plant genetic engineering. More particularly, the present invention discloses tissue-specific promoters for expression of heterologous nucleic acids in plants including monocotyledonous plants. The invention also discloses chimeric nucleic acid constructs comprising a promoter of the invention operably linked to a foreign or endogenous polynucleotide that codes for a protein of interest or a transcript that is capable of modulating expression of a target gene. The invention is further concerned with transformed plant cells, as well as differentiated plants and plant parts, containing the construct of the invention.