E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Soybean U6 small nuclear RNA gene promoters and their use in constitutive expression of small RNA genes in plants

Abstract:

The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences from soybean, specifically to promoters of U6 small nuclear RNA genes, and fragments thereof, and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a constitutive manner in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same.