Table S1: List of cis-regulatory elements identified on the 1.5 Kb upstream regulatory sequence of OSIPP3 by using PLACE database Name of the site Sequence Position from TSS Function References ABRELATERD1 ACGTG -1335 Dehydration stress and senescence Simpson et al., 2003 ARR1AT NGAAT Transcriptional activator Sakai et al., 2000 CAAT BOX CAAT -1249, -1074, -947, -473 -82, -866, -841, -824, -192, +88 Binding with RNA transcription factor Shirsat et al., 1989 CCAC PB CORE CCAC -467, -118, -78 Pollen specific expression Bate and Twell, 1998 Enhancer element of LAT52 TGTGG -1350 Park et al., 2006; Enhancer element of LAT56 TGTGA -966 Required for high level expression in mature pollen Required for high level expression in mature pollen Transcription activator TAAATC -732 a putative transcription binding site for transcription activator to initiate gene transcription in rice anther Liu et al., 2013 DOFCOREZM AAAG Core site required for binding of Dof proteins Yanagisawa and Schmidt, 1999 GTGANTG10 GTGA -1231, -1096, -707, -637, -206, -187, -178, -66 -965,- 1333 Late pollen development Twell et al., 1991 MYCCONSESUSAT CANNTG -849, -796, -452 Abe et al., 2003 POLLENLELAT52 AGAAA -64, -185, -295, -709 transcriptional activators in abscisic acid signaling Pollen specific expression ROOTMOTIFTAPOX1 ATATT -808, -1275, -1366 Root specific expression Elmayan and Tepfer, 1995 TATA BOX TATATAAA -27 Accurate initiation of transcription Grace et al., 2004 Swapna et al., 2011 Bate and Twell, 1998 Supplementary Figures: Fig S1: Fig 1: DNA blot hybridization for confirmation of transgenic plants developed with different promoter deletion constructs. A) Transgenic genomic DNA digested with Xho I (released the bar gene from the cassette) and hybridized with bar gene as probe to confirm the presence of transgene. B) Selected transgenic plants genomic DNA digested with BstX I (T-DNA insertion number) and hybridized with GUS probe to analyze the left border junction fragment analysis. NT- non-transformed control plant; Kb- Kilo base pair. C) PCR analysis of OSIPP3 T2 transgenic plants with promoter + GUS gene-specific sequence primer pairs. M: 1 kb ladder; B: water as template; 1-14: transgenic plants; C: non transformed control plant; Mx: master mix; P: plasmid as positive control