“…PRPs were first identified as proteins that accumulate in the cell wall in response to physical damage (Chen and Varner, 1985;Tierney et al, 1988) and have subsequently been shown to be temporally regulated during plant development. PRP gene expression is associated with early stages of legume root nodule formation (Franssen et al, 1987;van de Wiel et al, 1990;Wilson et al, 1994), soybean seedling, leaf, stem, and seed coat development (Hong et al, 1989;Kleis-San Francisco and Tierney, 1990;Lindstrom and Vodkin, 1991;Ye et al, 1991), bean seedling growth (Sheng et al, 1991), and with early stages of tomato fruit development (Santino et al, 1997). The spatial pattern of PRP expression is also tightly regulated, as shown by in situ hybridization and reporter gene expression analysis (Wyatt et al, 1992;Suzuki et al, 1993).…”