Patent ID: 8030539

Claim:
A process for constitutive expression of a nucleic acid in a transgenic dicotyledonous plant under the control of a parsley ubiquitin promoter, wherein the process comprises: a) linking the nucleic acid to a promoter to form a construct, wherein the promoter comprises i) the sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a functional fragment thereof which has the same promoter activity as the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or ii) a sequence having 90% or more sequence identity to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and having the same expression activity as the full-length sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; and b) introducing into a plant the construct under conditions which enable the nucleic acid to be stably integrated into the genome of the plant; wherein the promoter is heterologous to the nucleic acid sequence; and wherein the nucleic acid is constitutively expressed in the plant.