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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2004
T. Erik Mirkov, Harlingen, TX (US);
Mona B. Damaj, College Station, TX (US);
Avutu Reddy, Carmel, IN (US);
Terry L. Thomas, College Station, TX (US);
Keerti S. Rathore, College Station, TX (US);
Chandrakanth Emani, College Station, TX (US);
Siva Prasad Kumpatla, Zionsville, IN (US);
T. Erik Mirkov, Harlingen, TX (US);
Mona B. Damaj, College Station, TX (US);
Avutu Reddy, Carmel, IN (US);
Terry L. Thomas, College Station, TX (US);
Keerti S. Rathore, College Station, TX (US);
Chandrakanth Emani, College Station, TX (US);
Siva Prasad Kumpatla, Zionsville, IN (US);
The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as OMT promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. Particularly, the invention provides transgenic plants of rice and sugarcane that have been modified such that expression of a heterologous coding sequence is directed by an OMT promoter and is limited to stem tissues or may be upregulated by the presence of a defense-inducing agent. The invention also discloses methods for producing the expression vectors and transgenic plants.