*4.5. Analysis of Cis-Acting Elements of the* PLP\_deC *Genes*

A 2000 bp sequence upstream of the translation start site (ATG) of each *PLP\_deC* gene was obtained, and an analysis of the upstream regulatory promoter elements was performed using the online tool PlantCARE (http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/plantcare/html/) [42].
