COTTON ALPHA-GLOBULIN PROMOTER FOR SEED-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENES

摘要

The present invention is directed to 5' regulatory regions of a cotton seed-specific gene, alpha -globulin. The 5' regulatory region, or parts thereof, when operably linked to either the coding sequence of a native gene, heterologous gene or a sequence or complementary sequence in a plant seed. The regulatory regions are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the trnasformation of plants. Also provided are methods of modulating the levels of a native or heterologous gene such as a fatty acid synthesis or lipid metabolism gene by transforming a plant with the subject expression cassettes and expression vectors.