Patent ID: 7214861

Claim:
A method for expressing a plant-expressible structural gene other than an Enod2 structural gene in a tissue-specific manner in a nodule of a soybean plant said method comprising the steps of introducing a recombinant DNA molecule into a soybean cell, regenerating a transformed soybean plant from said cell, said plant comprising said recombinant DNA molecule, and growing said plant; said recombinant DNA molecule comprising an Enod2 gene regulatory region, wherein the full complement of said regulatory region maintains hybridization with a DNA sequence selected from the group consisting of nucleotides 520 to 1565 of SEQ ID NO:1 and nucleotides 1320 to 2365 of SEQ ID NO:4 under conditions of high stringency, and said plant-expressible structural gene being positioned such that it is expressed under the regulatory control of said regulatory region, wherein said conditions of high stringency are hybridization for 72 hours at 65° C. in 0.9 M NaCl/90 mM sodium citrate, and wash in 0.3 M NaCl/30 mM sodium citrate for 15 minutes at room temperature.