Maize hybrid X90N361
A novel maize variety designated X90N361 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X90N361 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X90N361 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X90N361, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X90N361 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X90N361 and methods of using maize variety X90N361 are disclosed.
1. A seed of hybrid maize variety X90N361, representative seed produced by crossing a first plant of variety PH42YR with a second plant of variety PH42SH, wherein representative seed of the varieties PH42YR and PH42SH have been deposited under ATCC Accession Numbers PTA-126654 and PTA-126650, respectively.
2. A plant or plant part of hybrid maize variety X90N361 grown from the seed of claim 1 , wherein the plant part comprises at least one cell of hybrid maize variety X90N361.
3. A method of producing the seed of claim 1 , the method comprising crossing a plant of variety PH42YR with a plant of variety PH42SH.
4. An F1 hybrid maize variety X90N361 seed further comprising at least one and fewer than six locus conversions, the seed further comprising the locus conversion being produced by crossing a first plant of variety PH42YR with a second plant of variety PH42SH, wherein representative seed of the varieties PH42YR and PH42SH have been deposited under ATCC Accession Numbers PTA-126654 and PTA-126650 respectively, wherein the at least one and fewer than six locus conversions has been introduced into at least one of variety PH42YR and variety PH42SH, and wherein the seed produces a plant expressing the traits conferred by the at least one and fewer than six locus conversions and comprising otherwise all the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize variety X90N361 when grown under the same environmental conditions when evaluated at the 5% significance level.
5. A seed of hybrid maize variety X90N361 further comprising a single locus conversion, wherein a plant grown from the seed comprises a trait conferred by the single locus conversion, and wherein the seed is produced by crossing a first plant of variety PH42YR with a second plant of variety PH42SH, wherein the first plant, the second plant or both further comprise the single locus conversion, and wherein representative seed of the varieties PH42YR and PH42SH have been deposited under ATCC Accession Numbers PTA-126654 and PTA-126650, respectively.
6. The hybrid maize variety X90N361 seed of claim 5 , wherein the locus conversion confers a property selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, disease resistance, waxy starch, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified phytic acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified protein metabolism.
7. The hybrid maize variety X90N361 seed of claim 5 , further comprising a seed treatment on the surface of the seed.
8. A method for producing nucleic acids, the method comprising isolating nucleic acids from the hybrid maize variety X90N361 seed of claim 5 .
9. A plant or plant part grown from the hybrid maize variety X90N361 seed of claim 5 , the plant part comprising at least one cell of hybrid maize variety X90N361 further comprising the single locus conversion.
10. A method of producing a commodity plant product comprising starch, syrup, silage, fat or protein, the method comprising producing the commodity plant product from the plant or plant part of claim 9 .
11. A method for producing a second maize plant, the method comprising applying plant breeding techniques to the plant or plant part of claim 9 to produce the second maize plant.
12. A method for producing the hybrid maize variety X90N361 seed further comprising a locus conversion of claim 4 , the method comprising crossing a first plant of variety PH42YR with a second plant of variety PH42SH, representative seed of the varieties PH42YR and PH42SH having been deposited under ATCC Accession Numbers PTA-126654 and PTA-126650, respectively, wherein at least one of the varieties PH42YR and PH42SH further comprises the locus conversion.
13. The seed of claim 4 , further comprising a seed treatment on the surface of the seed.
14. The seed of claim 4 , wherein the locus conversion confers a property selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, disease resistance, waxy starch, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified phytic acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified protein metabolism.
15. A method for producing nucleic acids, the method comprising isolating nucleic acids from the seed of claim 4 .
16. A plant or plant part produced by growing the seed of claim 4 , the plant part comprising at least one cell of F1 hybrid maize variety X90N361 further comprising the at least one and few than six locus conversions.
17. A method for producing nucleic acids, the method comprising isolating nucleic acids from the plant or plant part of claim 16 .
18. A method of producing a commodity plant product comprising starch, syrup, silage, fat or protein, the method comprising producing the commodity plant product from the plant or plant part of claim 16 .
19. A method for producing a second maize plant, the method comprising crossing the maize plant or plant part of claim 16 with itself or with a different maize plant.
20. A method for producing nucleic acids, the method comprising isolating nucleic acids from the plant or plant part of claim 9 .