Plants and seeds of corn variety I539440
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1. A seed of corn variety I539440 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-9594).
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Abstract
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I539440. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I539440, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety I539440 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety I539440 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety I539440.
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22 Claims
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1. A seed of corn variety I539440 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-9594).
- 2. A plant of corn variety I539440 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-9594).
- 10. A method of producing a plant of corn variety I539440 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-9594) comprising an added desired trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the desired trait into a plant of corn variety I539440.
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15. A method of introducing a single locus conversion into corn variety I539440 comprising:
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(a) crossing a plant of variety I539440 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-9594) with a second plant comprising a desired single locus to produce F1 progeny plants; (b) selecting F1 progeny plants that have the single locus to produce selected F1 progeny plants; (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with at least a first plant of variety I539440 to produce backcross progeny plants; (d) selecting backcross progeny plants that have the single locus and physiological and morphological characteristics of corn variety I539440 to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the single locus and otherwise comprise all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of corn variety I539440 when grown in the same environmental conditions. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of producing an inbred corn plant derived from the corn variety I539440, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) preparing a progeny plant derived from corn variety I539440 (ATCC Accession No.
9594) by crossing a plant of the corn variety I539440 with a corn plant of a second variety;(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 additional 3-10 generations with sufficient inbreeding to produce an inbred corn plant derived from the corn variety I539440.
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