Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying maize plants that have increased cell wall digestibility. The methods use molecular markers to identify and select plants with increased cell wall digestibility or to identify and counter-select plants with decreased cell wall digestibility. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying maize plants that have increased cell wall digestibility. The methods use molecular markers to identify and select plants with increased cell wall digestibility or to identify and counter-select plants with decreased cell wall digestibility. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.

Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH36E, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH36E, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH36E with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH36E with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH36E, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH36E and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.