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We have analyzed in transgenic tobacco the expression of a chimeric gene containing 5′ sequences of the rice rab-16B gene fused to the β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene. This construct, a translational fusion (−482 to +184) including 14 amino acids of the RAB-16B protein, is expressed only in zygotic and pollen-derived embryos. In zygotic embryos, GUS activity begins to accumulate 10 days after flowering (daf), and increases until seed maturation at 25 daf. Immunological measurements of endogenous abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation in these seeds showed a close parallel between hormone levels and GUS activity. However, GUS activity could not be reproducibly induced by treatment of immature embryos with ABA (10 μM). Neither GUS activity nor GUS mRNA could be detected in leaves of transgenic tobacco even after ABA treatment. In contrast, GUS activity could be induced to high levels in pollen-derived embryos by treatment with ABA. Our results show that 482 bp of 5′ sequences of the rice rab-16B promoter can confer in transgenic tobacco developmentally regulated expression in embryos but not ABA-responsive expression in vegetative tissues.
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Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K., Mino, M., Mundy, J. et al. Analysis of an ABA-responsive rice gene promoter in transgenic tobacco. Plant Mol Biol 15, 905–912 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00039429
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