Inbred corn line BE9515

A method of introducing a desired trait into corn inbred line BE9515 comprising:

• a) crossing BE9515 plants grown from seed deposited under ATCC Accession No. 6069, with plants of another corn line that comprise a desired trait to produce F1 progeny plants;
• (b) selecting F1 progeny plants that have the desired trait;
• (c) crossing selected progeny plants with BE9515 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
• (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of corn inbred line BE9515;
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• (e) performing steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce a selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of corn inbred line BE9515 listed in Table 1 as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.

A method for producing an inbred corn plant, comprising:

• a) growing first generation hybrid corn plants having BE9515 as a parent corn plant;
• b) selfing the first generation hybrid corn plants or crossing the first generation hybrid corn plants with different corn plants to yield progeny corn seed;
• c) growing the progeny corn seed of step b) to yield further progeny corn seed;
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• d) repeating steps b) and c) from 0 to 7 times to generate an inbred corn plant.

A method for producing inbred BE9515, representative seed of the line having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-6069, comprising:

• (a) planting a collection of seed comprising seed of a hybrid, one of whose parents is a inbred BE9515, the collection also comprising seed of the inbred BE9515;
• (b) growing plants from the collection of seed;
• (c) identifying inbred BE9515 parent plants by their decreased vigor relative to the hybrid plants produced from the hybrid seed;
• (d) controlling pollination in a manner which preserves the homozygosity of the inbred parent plant;
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• (e) harvesting the resultant seed of inbred BE9515.