supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30270145);the“863”Projects(Grant No.2002AA224101);the National Special Program for Research and Industrialization of Transgenic Plants(Grant No.J99-A-038)in China.
PNZIP gene promoter has been cloned from Pharbitis nil by adaptor PCR, which con-forms to eukaryotic promoter characteristic. Primer extension analysis showed that the transcrip-tion start site was located 122 nucleot...