PROMOTERS OF PLANT DEFENCE-ASSOCIATED GENES

摘要

The invention provides plant promoters that are associated with and regulated by mechanisms occurring during plant defence. Representative sequences can be isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana and have sequences that are included in SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 9. The invention also provides DNA constructs comprising a gene under the operation of the subject promoters. Further provided are plant cells having a construct according to the invention as part of the genomes thereof and plants comprising such cells. Also provided is a method of identifying compounds that modulate the activity of promoters according to the invention.