Rice pollen-preferential promoter region

Abstract

Promoters from rice are provided, which promote transcription preferentially in microspores and / or pollen of plants, such as rice plants. More specifically, disclosed is a pollen-preferential promoter region comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: a) the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No 7 from the nucleotide at position 16 to the nucleotide at position 1126; b) the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No 7 from the nucleotide at position 16 to the nucleotide at position 940; c) the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No 7 from the nucleotide at position 231 to the nucleotide at position 932.