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The ENOD40 gene is induced early during Rhizobium-legume symbiosis and has probably a primary role in the nodule organogenesis. In this paper we show that the 1.7 kb 5′-flanking region of the GmENOD40(2) is able to drive the expression of a gusA-int marker in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. The promoter activity is developmentally regulated and the major activity is detected in the root and in the stigma.
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Mirabella, R., Martirani, L., Lamberti, A. et al. The soybean ENOD40(2) promoter is active in Arabidopsis thaliana and is temporally and spatially regulated. Plant Mol Biol 39, 177–181 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006146627301
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