Modification of plant development and morphology

A chimaeric gene comprising:

• a promoter sequence operably associated with a heterologous nucleic acid sequence, the promoter sequence comprising;
• a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:
• 1, SEQ ID NO:
• 7, a sequence having at least 99% identity to SEQ ID NO:
• 1 or SEQ ID NO:
• 7 and a sequence capable of hybridizing to SEQ ID NO:
• 1 or SEQ ID NO:
• 7 under stringent hybridization conditions, said stringent hybridization conditions comprising washing for 2×15 min. with a 0.1×SSC, 0.5% SDS buffer at a temperature of 65° C. and wherein the promoter sequence is operable to direct expression in at least one of a lateral bud and a lateral shoot.

A recombinant DNA comprising vector DNA and a promoter sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:

• 1, SEQ ID NO:
• 7, a sequence having at least 99% identity to SEQ ID NO:
• 1 or SEQ ID NO:
• 7 and a sequence capable of hybridizing to SEQ ID NO:
• 1 or SEQ ID NO:
• 7 under stringent hybridization conditions, said stringent hybridization conditions comprising washing for 2×15 min. with a 0.1×SSC, 0.5% SDS buffer at a temperature of 65° C. and wherein the promoter sequence is operable to direct expression in at least one of a lateral bud and a lateral shoot.

A method of regulating the expression of a gene in a plant, comprising introducing into a plant a chimaeric gene comprising a promoter sequence operably associated with a coding sequence of a gene, wherein the expression of the gene is regulated and wherein the promoter sequence comprises a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:

• 1, SEQ ID NO:
• 7, a sequence having at least 99% identity to SEQ ID NO:
• 1 or SEQ ID NO:
• 7 and a sequence capable of hybridizing to SEQ ID NO:
• 1 or SEQ ID NO:
• 7 under stringent hybridization conditions, said stringent hybridization conditions comprising washing for 2×15 min. with a 0.1×SSC, 0.5% SDS buffer at a temperature of 65° C. and wherein the promoter sequence is operable to direct expression in at least one of a lateral bud and a lateral shoot.