Patent 8232380 was granted and assigned to Ceres, Inc. on July, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Regulatory regions suitable for directing the expression of a heterologous polynucleotide under light conditions in which the red/far red ratio is less than 1 are described, as well as nucleic acid constructs that include these regulatory regions. Also disclosed are transgenic plants that contain such constructs and methods of producing such transgenic plants.