The invention belongs to the technical field of biological
gene engineering and discloses a
promoter sequence of a fructokinase
gene in an apple, and deletion mutants and application of. A
promoter isnamed as FH1 and is a 1780-bp
nucleotide sequence at the upper
stream of the 5'-end of an MdFRK2
gene coding frame in an apple; and the mutants are sequences obtained by deleting fragments with different lengths from the 5'-end of the sequence of FH1 and are named as FH2, FH3 and FH4 respectively. The invention further discloses application of the MdFRK2
promoter and the deletion mutants of the MdFRK2 promoter in research on
plant functional genes. The MdFRK2 promoter can regulate and control the specific expression of a
target gene in
cambium of stem tip growth points, old leaves, functionalleaf margins and other
library tissues of
arabidopsis thaliana and poplar, and a fragment from a transcription starting site to upstream-600 bp is determined to be a
core fragment of a promoter region of the MdFRK2 promoter. The full length of the MdFRK2 promoter is induced by exogenous
sugar and drought, which indicates that the promoter has important application value in industrial developmentof
plant genetic engineering.