Patent ID: 7642346

Claim:
A method for the expression of a nucleic acid sequence of interest in flax seeds comprising: (a) preparing a chimeric nucleic acid construct comprising in the 5′ to 3′ direction of transcription as operably linked components: (1) a seed-specific promoter obtained from flax wherein said seed-preferred promoter comprises the nucleic acid sequence as shown in FIG. 3 (SEQ ID NO: 6) from nucleotides 1 to 398; and (2) said nucleic acid sequence of interest wherein said nucleic acid of interest is non-native to said seed-specific promoter; (b) introducing said chimeric nucleic acid construct into a flax plant cell; and (c) regenerating a mature flax plant from said flax plant cell, wherein said nucleic acid sequence of interest is expressed in the seed of said flax plant.