Plant promoters are important cis-regulatory elements for regulating gene expression.Studies on character,isolation and application of plant promoters related to disease resistance are pivotal to enhance plants disease resistance.In this paper,the basic structure and cloning methods of plant promoters were reviewed.The advances on isolation method,application and existed problems of constitutive,tissue-specific promoters,and natural and artificially synthetic pathogen-inducible promoters in plant were introduced in details.The prospect in the study of promoters related to disease resistance was sketched.