IP Library Granted Patent US 12690540
Granted Patent B2
US 12690540 · App. 18/497,216 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Corn line LRFF7060ZL

Inventor: Yifru Teklu (Waterloo, NE)
Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
A01H6/4684A01H5/10
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Patent No.
US 12690540
App. No.
18/497,216
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated LRFF7060ZL, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line LRFF7060ZL with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line LRFF7060ZL, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line LRFF7060ZL, and plants produced according to these methods.

Claims (20)

1 . A seed of maize LRFF7060ZL, wherein representative seed of said maize LRFF7060ZL has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-127674.

2 . A plant of maize LRFF7060ZL, wherein representative seed of said maize LRFF7060ZL has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-127674.

3 . A plant part of the plant of claim 2 .

4 . The plant part of claim 3 , wherein said part is a pollen grain, a silk, a protoplast, a cell, a tassel, an anther or an ovule.

5 . A maize seed produced on the plant of claim 2 .

6 . A maize plant having all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the plant according to claim 2 and further comprising an additional trait, wherein the additional trait is selected from the group consisting of water stress resistance, waxy starch, male sterility, restoration of male fertility, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified protein metabolism, modified fatty acid metabolism, altered starch, thermotolerant amylase, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, nematode resistance, bacterial disease resistance, fungal disease resistance, and viral disease resistance.

7 . The plant of claim 6 , wherein the additional trait is conferred by introducing a transgene into the plant according to claim 2 .

8 . A converted seed, plant, plant part or plant cell of maize LRFF7060ZL, representative seed of the maize LRFF7060ZL having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-127674, wherein the converted seed, plant, plant part or plant cell comprises a locus conversion, and wherein the plant or a plant grown from the converted seed, plant part or plant cell comprises the locus conversion and otherwise comprises the phenotypic characteristics of maize LRFF7060ZL when grown under the same environmental conditions.

9 . A process for producing maize seed, said process comprising crossing the maize plant of claim 2 with a different maize plant, and harvesting the seed.

10 . An F1 maize seed produced by the process of claim 9 .

11 . An F1 maize plant produced by germinating the seed of claim 10 .

12 . A method of producing a genetic marker profile, the method comprising extracting nucleic acids from the seed of claim 10 or the plant germinated from said seed and genotyping said nucleic acids at one or more genetic loci, thereby producing a genetic marker profile.

13 . A method of plant breeding, the method, comprising a) isolating nucleic acids from the seed of claim 10 , b) identifying one or more polymorphisms from the isolated nucleic acids, and c) selecting a plant obtained from said seed having said one or more polymorphisms, wherein the plant is used in a plant breeding method.

14 . A method of plant breeding, the method comprising a) isolating nucleic acids from the plant of claim 11 , b) identifying one or more polymorphisms from the isolated nucleic acids, and c) selecting a plant having said one or more polymorphisms, wherein the plant is used in a plant breeding method.

15 . A process of introducing an additional trait into maize plant LRFF7060ZL, the method comprising: (a) crossing LRFF7060ZL plants grown from LRFF7060ZL seeds, representative seeds deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-127674, with plants of another maize that comprise an additional trait to produce hybrid progeny plants, (b) selecting hybrid progeny plants that have the additional trait to produce selected hybrid progeny plants; (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the LRFF7060ZL plants to produce backcross progeny plants; (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the additional trait to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) at least three or more times to produce backcross progeny plants that comprise the additional trait and otherwise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred plant LRFF7060ZL when grown in the same environmental conditions.

16 . A plant produced by the process of claim 15 .

17 . A method of producing a maize plant derived from the inbred plant LRFF7060ZL, the method comprising the steps of (a) growing the plant of claim 11 ; (b) crossing said plant with itself or a different plant to produce a seed of a progeny plant; (c) repeating step (b) at least one or more times; and (d) growing said progeny plant from said seed and crossing the progeny plant with itself or a different plant to produce a maize plant derived from the inbred plant LRFF7060ZL.

18 . A method for developing a second maize in a maize plant breeding program, the method comprising applying plant breeding techniques, wherein said techniques comprise recurrent selection, backcrossing, pedigree breeding, marker enhanced selection, haploid/double haploid production, or transformation to the maize plant of claim 11 , wherein application of said techniques results in development of a second maize.

19 . A method of producing a commodity plant product, the method comprising growing a plant from the seed of claim 10 , and producing said commodity plant product comprising protein concentrate, protein isolate, starch, meal, flour or oil therefrom.

20 . A method of producing a maize plant with doubled haploid chromosomes from the maize LRFF7060ZL, the method comprising: (a) crossing the plant of claim 11 with an inducer maize plant to produce a progeny with haploid chromosomes; and (b) doubling the haploid chromosomes in the progeny to produce a maize plant with doubled haploid chromosomes.