New constitutive plant promoter

摘要

The present invention provides a constitutive promoter obtainable from Brassica napus plants. According to the present invention there is provided aDNA fragment harbouring a constitutive promoter, said DNA fragment being present in clone pJB1178-29, deposited with the Centraal Bureau of Schimmelcultures (Baarn, the Nederlands) on 6 Feb. 2001 under no. CBS 109272. The DNA fragment according to the present invention is further characterised in that it comprises whole or parts of the sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 7. Further, the invention comprises the homologue sequence in Arabidopsis thaliana as depicted in SEQ ID NO:8.