United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Roger L Thilmony

James G Thomson

Christopher D Dardick

Kasturi Dasgupta

William R Belknap

Kent F McCue

Eddie W Stover

Mara E Guttman

The present disclosure provides genetic constructs containing a promotor that is useful in driving fruit-specific expression in plants. Further provided are expression vectors, transgenic plants, and plant parts containing such genetic constructs, as well as uses thereof.

Fruit-specific promoters

The present disclosure provides genetic constructs containing a promoter that is useful in driving fruit-specific expression in plants. Further provided are expression vectors, transgenic plants and plant parts containing such genetic constructs, as well as uses thereof.

Expression vectors and expression cassettes containing a tissue specific 5' transcription regulatory element, optionally linked to a translation regulatory element, optionally linked to an intron transcription regulatory element, operably linked to a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a protein or RNA of interest are described. The 5&#x2032; transcription regulatory elements control expression in root tissue cells, phloem tissue cells, or fruit and/or abscission zone tissue cells. These sequences are obtained fromplants. Methods of use of these expression vectors and expression cassettes are described, as well as genetically altered plants and parts thereof that contain these expression vectors and/or cassettes.

Citrus derived transcription and translation regulatory elements for tissue specific expression

The present invention relates to isolated rice LP2 promoter sequences and uses thereof.

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El Cerrito, CA, United States of America

Roger L Thilmony