Patent ID: 7544857

Claim:
A method for regulating gene expression in a plant, said method comprising the steps of: (a) transforming at least one cell of a plant with an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a polynucleotide molecule of interest, wherein said promoter is a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 600 contiguous nucleotides of the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1 and wherein said promoter comprises a GARE motif (SEQ ID NO: 31) and a pyrimidine box (SEQ ID NO: 32); and (b) regenerating said transformed cell into a transformed plant; wherein said promoter drives the expression of said polynucleotide molecule of interest preferentially in at least one elongating tissue of said plant, said elongating tissue selected from the group consisting of the elongating tissues of stems, tassels, and silks, or wherein said promoter drives the expression of said polynucleotide molecule of interest in a part of said plant selected from the group consisting of a vascular bundle, cells surrounding a vascular bundle, a pulvinus, a leaf sheath, a root cap, a stalk internode, and a nodal plate.