Inbred maize variety PHEKN

A process of introducing a locus conversion into maize inbred variety PHEKN comprising:

• (a) crossing a plant of maize inbred variety PHEKN, representative seed of which has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-10201, with a plant of another maize variety that comprise a desired trait to produce F1 progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, site-specific recombination, increased transformability, abiotic stress tolerance, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, disease resistance, altered phosphorus, altered antioxidants, altered fatty acids, altered essential amino acids and altered carbohydrates;
• (b) selecting F1 progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected F1 progeny plants;
• (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the PHEKN plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
• (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and the alleles of inbred variety PHEKN at the SSR loci listed in Table 2 to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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• (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) to produce backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and comprise at least 95% of the alleles of inbred variety PHEKN at the SSR loci listed in Table 2.