The invention relates to a pathogen-inducible synthetic promoter which issuitable forregulating the transcription of a nucleic acid, and includes a minimalpromoter,characterized in that the minimal promoter includes a sequence motif a) dbrmwaor b)twcccmt which is disposed downstream from a TATA region and in front of atranscriptionstarting point which is located on the minimal promoter and at whichtranscription of thenucleic acid to be regulated starts.
