Preliminary results of the plant transformations undertaken to study the function of the 840-PAL promoter were presented in

TAYLOR N.J., HONGYING LI, J.R. BEECHING AND C.M. FAUQUET 2001 A PAL Promoter Isolated from Deteriorating Cassava Roots Drives Highly Specific Marker Gene Expression in Transgenic Plants. Paper at the Fifth International Meeting of the Cassava Biotechnology Network, St. Louis. Also available on the web.

and

TAYLOR, N.J., M.V. MASONA, P. CHELLEPAN, HONGYING LI, J.R. BEECHING AND C.M. FAUQUET 2001 Genetic Transformation of Cassava at ILTAB. Paper at the Fifth International Meeting of the Cassava Biotechnology Network, St. Louis.

For further information on the Xa21 rice, see:

SONG W.Y., G.L. WANG, L. CHEN, H.S. KIM, L.Y. PI, T. HOLSTEN, J. GARDNER, B. WANG, W.X. ZHAI, L.H. ZHU, C.M. FAUQUET, AND P. RONALD. 1995. A receptor Kinase-like protein encoded by the rice disease resistance gene, Xa21. Science 270: 1804-1806.