The present inventors presumed that rice globulins accumulating in
vacuole-derived type II protein bodies comprise a vacuolar translocating
signal and proceeded to identify such a signal. As a result, fusion
proteins composed of a 15 amino acid residue peptide of globulin,
extending from the 72nd leucine residue to the 86th serine residue, added
to the C terminus of GFP were surprisingly found to be intracellularly
localized to non-vacuole-derived type I protein bodies (PB-I), and not to
vacuole-derived type II protein bodies (PB-II). Furthermore, based on
this 15 amino acid residue sequence, the consensus sequence "QCCXQ"
(where X is an arbitrary amino acid), which is conserved in plants, was
discovered. Accordingly, the present invention suggests that arbitrary
peptides can be accumulated in plant endosperm tissues by adding the
QCCXQ sequence thereto.