The invention relates to promoter regions under the control of which transgenes can be expressed in plants in an epidermis-specific manner. The invention also relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules including said promoters, to transgenic plants and plant cells transformed with these nucleic acid molecules, and to methods for producing the same. The invention further relates to nucleic acid molecules including a promoter according to the invention and to nucleic acid sequences or transgenes mediating pathogen resistance, to plants and plant cells transformed with these nucleic acid molecules and to methods for producing the same.