Abstract
cis-Regulatory elements involved in tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)-inducible expression were indentified in a tobacco PR-5 gene, encoding an acidic thaumatin-like protein. By fusing upstream sequences of the PR-5 gene to the GUS reporter gene and analysing transgenic plants containing these fusions for local and systemic induction of GUS activity by TMV, it was found that sequences between-1364 and-718 are involved in TMV induction of PR-5 gene expression.
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Albrecht, H., van de Rhee, M.D. & Bol, J.F. Analysis ofcis-regulatory elements involved in induction of a tobacco PR-5 gene by virus infection. Plant Mol Biol 18, 155–158 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00018471
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00018471