Disclosed is inbred corn seed comprising a homozygous brown-midrib-3 (bm3) and a homozygous floury-2 (fl2) genotype. Also disclosed is a method of introducing a brown-midrib trait and floury-endosperm trait into a corn inbred line comprising: (a) crossing recurrent inbred corn plants with donor plants of another corn line that comprise a desired brown-midrib trait and a desired floury-endosperm trait to produce F progeny plants (b) crossing F 1 progeny plants with the recurrent inbred com plants to produce backcross (BC1) progeny plants, which are then self-pollinated to produce selfed BCI plants (c) selecting for backcrossed selfed (BC1S1) progeny seeds and plants that respectively comprise the desired floury-endosperm and brown-midrib traits, and physiological and morphological characteristics of the recurrent corn inbred line and crossing the selected backcrossed selfed (BC1S1) plants with the recurrent inbred com plants to produce the twice-backcrossed selfed (BC2S1) progeny plants, which are then self-pollinated to produce twice backcrossed twice-selfed (BC2S2) plants (d) performing steps (b) and (c) one or more times in succession to produce the selected or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired brown-midrib trait and floury-endosperm traits and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the recurrent com inbred line as determined at the 5% significance level when grown in the same environmental conditions.
