Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH956311

• US 7,250,564 B1
• Filed: 04/15/2005
• Issued: 07/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC (Bayer AG)
• Original Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC (Bayer AG)
• Inventors: Weyhrich, Roger
• Primary Examiner(s): KUBELIK, ANNE R
• Application Number:
  US11/107,361
• Time in Patent Office: 837 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 800/320.1
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 5/10 Seeds
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 6/4684 Zea mays [maize]

Abstract

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH956311. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH956311, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH956311 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH956311.

Claims

1. A seed of the hybrid corn variety CH956311, produced by crossing a first plant of variety I294213 with a second plant of variety I217345, wherein representative seed of said varieties have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-7859 and PTA-8211, respectively.

2. A plant of the hybrid corn variety CH956311 grown from the seed of claim 1.

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

4. The plant part of claim 3, further defined as an ear, ovule, pollen or cell.

5. A tissue culture of cells of the plant of claim 2.

6. The tissue culture of claim 5, wherein cells of the tissue culture are obtained from a leaf, pollen grain, embryo, root, root tip, anther, silk, flower, kernel, ear, cob, husk, stalk or meristem.

10. A method for producing corn grain comprising growing the plant of claim 2 until grain is produced and collecting the grain.

22. A method of producing an inbred corn plant derived from the hybrid corn variety CH956311, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) preparing a progeny plant derived from hybrid corn variety CH956311 by crossing the plant of claim 2 with a second corn plant;

(b) crossing the progeny plant with itself or a second 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 second plant; and

(d) repeating steps (b) and (c) for an addition 3–

10 generations to produce an inbred corn plant derived from the hybrid corn variety CH956311.

7. A method of producing hybrid corn seed comprising crossing a plant of variety I294213 with a plant of variety I217345, wherein representative seed of variety I294213 and variety I217345 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA- 7859 and PTA-8211, respectively.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said crossing is carried out by pollinating a plant of inbred variety I294213 with pollen from a plant of variety I217345.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said crossing is carried out by pollinating a plant of inbred variety I217345 with pollen from a plant of variety I294213.

11. A method of introducing a heritable trait into hybrid corn variety CH956311 comprising the steps of:

(a) crossing a first plant of a first inbred corn variety selected from the group consisting of variety I294213 and variety I217345 with another corn plant that heritably carries the trait to produce progeny plants, at least some of which heritably carry the trait, wherein representative samples of seed of variety I294213 and variety I217345 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-7859 and PTA-8211, respectively;

(b) selecting progeny plants that heritably carry the trait;

(c) crossing selected progeny plants with another plant of the first inbred corn variety to produce next-generation progeny plants at least some of which heritably carry the trait;

(d) selecting next-generation progeny plants that heritably carry the trait and exhibit morphological and physiological characteristics of the first inbred corn variety;

(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times to produce at least a first selected progeny plant that heritably carries the trait and exhibits essentially all of the morphological and physical characteristics of the inbred corn variety; and

(f) crossing a progeny plant of step (e) with a plant of the other inbred corn variety of the group consisting of I294213 and I217345 to produce a seed that produces a plant comprising the trait and essentially all of the characteristics of hybrid corn variety CH956311 when grown under the same environmental conditions.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the trait is 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 zein content.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising repeating steps (a)–

(f) at least once to introduce at least a second trait into hybrid corn variety CH956311, wherein the second trait is 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 zein content.

14. A seed produced by the method of claim 11.

15. A plant grown from the seed of claim 14.

16. A method of introducing a desired trait into hybrid corn variety CH956311 comprising the steps of:

(a) introducing a transgene conferring the trait into a variety selected from the group consisting of I294213 and I217345 to produce a transgenic plant heritably carrying the trait; and

(b) crossing the transgenic plant or an isogenic progeny plant thereof with a plant of the other inbred corn variety to produce seed that heritably carries and expresses the transgene and otherwise has essentially all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of hybrid corn variety CH956311 when grown under the same environmental conditions.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the desired trait 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 zein content.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising repeating steps (a) and (b) at least once to introduce at least a second trait into hybrid corn variety CH956311, wherein the second trait is 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 zein content.

19. A seed produced by the method of claim 16.

20. A seed produced by the method of claim 16.

21. A plant grown from the seed of claim 19.