A sugar beet chlorophyll a/b binding protein promoter void of G-box like elements confers strong and leaf specific reporter gene expression in transgenic sugar beet

Table 1 Homology of cDNA fragments enriched for leaf expressed genes.

cDNA-fragment	Base pairs	Nearest homolog^a
L1	862	Flaveria pringlei mRNA for glycine hydroxymethyltransferase (371 bp, 84 %) Acc. Z25859; [42]
L2	479	Nicotiana tabacum mRNA for light-harvesting Chl a/b binding protein (337 bp, 86 %) Acc. X82497
L3	424	Spinacia oleracea psaH mRNA for photosystem I reaction centre subunit VI (361 bp, 90 %) Acc. X16858 [43]
L4	508	unknown
L5	587	Spinacia oleraceae ALDCHL mRNA for fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (495 bp, 87 %) Acc. X66814 [44]
L6	383	Beta vulgaris clone RUB109UNI ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase, small subunit gene, partial sequence (139 bp, 98 %) Acc. AF173667 [45]
L7	451	unknown
L8	221	Arabidopsis thaliana mRNA for hydroxypyruvate reductase, complete cds (203 bp, 83 %) Acc. D85339
L9	520	Spinacia oleracea, ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase A2 mRNA (151 bp, 82 %) Acc. X77163 [46]
L10	643	unknown
L11	338	Beta vulgaris clone RUB109UNI ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase, small subunit gene, partial sequence (206 bp, 93 %) Acc. AF173667 [45]
L12	532	unknown
L13	265	Spinacia oleraceae rubisco activase mRNA, complete cds (256 bp, 89 %) Acc. J03610 [47]
L14	540	Spinacia oleraceae psaL mRNA for subunit XI of photosystem I reaction center (409 bp, 88 %) Acc. X64445 [48]

^aThe genes that gave the highest homology in a BLASTN gene bank comparison are listed. In parenthesis, the contiguous stretch of base pairs showing the indicated percent homology is given.

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