# US 9,040,790 B2 · Variety corn line FF7354

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- Number: US 9,040,790 B2
- Document ID: US9040790B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/775,727
- Filed: 2013-02-25
- Published: 2013-08-29
- Granted: 2015-05-26
- Earliest claimed: 2012-02-27
- Assignees: Syngenta Participations AG
- Applicants: Syngenta Participations AG
- Inventors: Scott Furbeck
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9040790B2

## CPC

- A01H 6/4684: {Zea mays [maize]}
- A01G 22/00: Cultivation of specific crops or plants not otherwise provided for
- A01H 5/10: Seeds
- C12N 15/8241: {Phenotypically and genetically modified plants via recombinant DNA technology}
- C12N 15/8245: {involving modified carbohydrate or sugar alcohol metabolism, e.g. starch biosynthesis}
- C12N 15/8247: {involving modified lipid metabolism, e.g. seed oil composition}
- C12N 15/8251: {Amino acid content, e.g. synthetic storage proteins, altering amino acid biosynthesis}
- C12N 15/8274: {for herbicide resistance}
- C12N 15/8282: {for fungal resistance}
- C12N 15/8285: {for nematode resistance}
- C12N 15/8286: {for insect resistance}
- C12N 15/8289: {Male sterility}
- A01H: NEW PLANTS OR {NON-TRANSGENIC} PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES
- A01G: HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING (picking of fruits, vegetables, hops or the like A01D46/00; propagating unicellular algae C12N1/12)
- C12N: MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C12Q1/00)

## Abstract

The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated FF7354, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line FF7354 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line FF7354, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line FF7354, and plants produced according to these methods.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A seed of maize plant FF7354, representative seed sample of said maize plant deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13466.

### Claim 2

A maize plant FF7354, a representative seed sample of said FF7354 plant having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13466.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

A plant part of the maize plant of claim 2.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The plant part of claim 3, wherein said plant part is a pollen grain, a silk, a protoplast, a cell, a tassel, an anther or an ovule.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

A maize seed produced on the maize plant of claim 2.

### Claim 6 (depends on 2)

A process for producing maize seed, said process comprising crossing a maize plant of FF7354 according to claim 2 with a different maize plant.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

A maize plant produced by growing a hybrid maize seed produced by the process of claim 6.

### Claim 8 (depends on 2)

An F1 hybrid maize seed comprising a maize plant cell of the maize plant FF7354 according to claim 2, representative seed sample of said plant having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13466.

### Claim 9 (depends on 2)

A method for producing maize seed comprising growing the maize plant of claim 2 until seed is produced, harvesting the seed, wherein the harvested seed is inbred or hybrid or haploid seed.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

A seed produced by the method of claim 9.

### Claim 11

A process of introducing a heritable trait into maize plant FF7354 comprising: (a) crossing FF7354 plants grown from FF7354 seed, representative seed sample of said maize plant deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13466, with plants of another maize plant that comprise a desired trait to produce hybrid progeny plants, (b) selecting hybrid progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected hybrid progeny plants; (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the FF7354 plants to produce backcross progeny plants; (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) at least three or more times to produce backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred plant FF7354 when grown in the same environmental conditions.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

A plant produced by the process of claim 11.

### Claim 13 (depends on 2)

A maize plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of inbred plant FF7354 according to claim 2 and further comprising a desired trait, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of waxy starch, male sterility or restoration of male fertility, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified protein metabolism and modified fatty acid metabolism, altered starch, thermotolerant amylase, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, nematode resistance, bacterial disease resistance, fungal disease resistance, and viral disease resistance.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The maize plant of claim 13, wherein said trait is conferred by a transgene.

### Claim 15 (depends on 2)

The maize plant of claim 2 further comprising a transgene, wherein the transgene confers a trait selected from the group consisting of herbicide resistance, insect resistance, nematode resistance, bacterial disease resistance, fungal disease resistance, or viral disease resistance, waxy starch, altered starch, thermotolerant amylase, male sterility or restoration of male fertility, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified protein metabolism and modified fatty acid metabolism.

### Claim 16 (depends on 2)

A method of producing a maize plant derived from the inbred plant FF7354, the method comprising the steps of (a) growing a progeny plant wherein one parent of said progeny plant is the plant of claim 2; (b) crossing the progeny plant with itself or a different 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 different plant; and (d) repeating step (c) for an additional generation to produce a maize plant derived from the inbred plant FF7354.

### Claim 17 (depends on 2)

A method for developing a maize plant in a maize plant breeding program, comprising applying plant breeding techniques comprising recurrent selection, backcrossing, pedigree breeding, marker enhanced selection, haploid/double haploid production, or transformation to the maize plant of claim 2, or its parts, wherein application of said techniques results in development of a maize plant.

### Claim 18 (depends on 10)

A method of producing a commodity plant product comprising growing a plant from the seed of claim 10 and producing said commodity plant product comprising protein concentrate, protein isolate, starch, meal, flour or oil therefrom.

### Claim 19 (depends on 2)

A maize seed produced by crossing the plant of claim 2 with a different maize plant.