The present invention provides recombinant expression cassettes comprising a fungal 3' termination sequence which is functional in a plant. The recombinant expression cassettes comprise a plant promoter operably linked to a coding sequence having a stop codon, and the fungal 3' termination sequence. The fungal 3' termination sequence is heterologous to the coding sequence. The fungal 3' termination sequence comprises structural features including a cleavage site, a positioning element, and an upstream element. The present invention also comprises methods for construction of the plant expression cassettes and introducing the cassettes into plant cells.