Variety corn line NPFX6645
View Patent ↗The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated NPFX6645, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPFX6645 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line NPFX6645, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line NPFX6645, and plants produced according to these methods.
1. A seed of the maize plant NPFX6645, representative seed sample deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12525.
2. A maize plant NPFX6645, representative seed sample according to claim 1 of said NPFX6645 plant having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12525.
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 protoplast, a cell, a tassel, an anther or an ovule.
5. A maize seed produced by the plant of claim 2 .
6. A process for producing maize seed, said process comprising crossing the maize inbred line NPFX6645 according to claim 2 with a different maize plant.
7. A maize seed produced by crossing the plant of claim 2 with a different maize plant.
8. An F1 hybrid plant produced by growing the maize seed of claim 7 .
9. A method for producing maize seed comprising growing the plant of claim 2 until seed is produced, harvesting the seed, wherein the harvested seed is inbred or hybrid or haploid seed.
10. A seed produced by the method of claim 9 .
11. A process of introducing a heritable trait into maize plant NPFX6645 comprising: (a) crossing NPFX6645 plants grown from NPFX6645 seed, representative seed sample deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12525, with plants of another maize plant that comprise a desired trait to produce hybrid progeny plants, (b) selecting hybrid progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected hybrid progeny plants; (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the NPFX6645 plants to produce backcross progeny plants; (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired 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 desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred plant NPFX6645 when grown in the same environmental conditions.
12. A plant produced by the process of claim 11 , wherein the plant is a backcross progeny that comprises the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred plant NPFX6645 when grown in the same environmental conditions.
13. A maize plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of inbred plant NPFX6645 and the trait of claim 11 , wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of waxy starch, male sterility or restoration of male fertility, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified protein metabolism and modified fatty acid metabolism, altered starch, thermotolerant amylase, herbicide tolerance and/or resistance; insect or nematode tolerance and/or resistance, bacterial disease resistance, fungal disease resistance, and viral disease resistance.
14. The maize plant of claim 13 , wherein said trait is conferred by a transgene.
15. The maize plant of claim 14 , wherein the transgene confers a trait selected from the group consisting of herbicide tolerance and/or resistance; insect or nematode tolerance and/or resistance; resistance to bacterial, fungal, or viral disease; waxy starch; altered starch, thermotolerant amylase, male sterility or restoration of male fertility, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified protein metabolism and modified fatty acid metabolism.
16. A method of producing a maize plant derived from the inbred plant NPFX6645, the method comprising the steps of (a) growing a progeny plant wherein one parent of said progeny plant is the plant of claim 2 ; (b) crossing the progeny plant with itself or a different plant to produce a seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation; (c) growing a progeny plant of a subsequent generation from said seed and crossing the progeny plant of a subsequent generation with itself or a different plant; and (d) repeating step (c) for an additional generation to produce a maize plant derived from the inbred plant NPFX6645.
17. A method for developing a maize plant in a maize plant breeding program, comprising applying plant breeding techniques comprising recurrent selection, backcrossing, pedigree breeding, marker enhanced selection, haploid/double haploid production, or transformation to the maize plant of claim 2 , or its parts, wherein application of said techniques results in development of a maize plant.
18. A method of producing a commodity plant product comprising growing the plant from the seed of claim 10 , or a part thereof, and producing said commodity plant product comprising protein concentrate, protein isolate, starch, meal, flour or oil therefrom.
19. A method of producing a treated seed of claim 10 comprising obtaining the seed of NPFX6645 and treating said seed.