Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH163712

A method of producing hybrid corn seed comprising crossing a plant of variety CV774864 with a plant of variety CV335662, wherein representative seed of variety CV774864 and variety CV335662 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-11317 and PTA-12233, respectively.

A seed of the hybrid corn variety CH163712 comprising at least a first single locus conversion, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV774864 with a second plant of variety CV335662, wherein representative seed of said varieties CV774864 and CV335662 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-11317 and PTA-12233, respectively, and wherein one or both of the first plant and second plant comprises the single locus conversion;

• and wherein a hybrid plant grown from the seed exhibits the trait conferred by the single locus conversion and otherwise exhibits essentially all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of hybrid corn variety CH163712 when grown under the same environmental conditions.

A method of introducing a heritable trait into hybrid corn variety CH163712 comprising the steps of:

• (a) introducing at least a first heritable trait into at least one inbred corn variety selected from the group consisting of variety CV774864 and variety CV335662 to produce a plant of the first inbred corn variety that heritably carries the trait, wherein the heritable trait is introduced into said first inbred corn variety by backcrossing and wherein representative samples of seed of variety CV774864 and variety CV335662 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-11317 and PTA-12233, respectively;
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• (b) crossing a plant of the first inbred corn variety that heritably carries the trait with a plant of a different variety selected from said group consisting of CV774864 and CV335662 to produce a plant of hybrid corn variety CH163712 comprising the heritable trait.