... Martinez A, Sparks C, Drayton P, Thompson J, Green-land A & Jepson I (1999a) Creation of ecdysone recep-tor chimeras in plants for controlled regulation of geneexpression. Mol Gen Genet 261, ... Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA2 Plant and Soil Sciences Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USAIntroductionThe conditional regulation of transgene ... robust induction of transgene expression in the presence of a low concen-tration (nanomolar) of a chemical ligand. In an effortto find an ideal chemically inducible gene regulationsystem, several...