A maize plant, maize plant part, or maize plant cell comprising a recombinant sequence, said recombinant sequence comprising: a nongenic maize genomic sequence of at least 1Kb, said nongenic sequence being hypomethylated, targetable, located proximal to a genic region within a maize genome, and exemplifying evidence of recombination; and a DNA of interest, wherein the DNA of interest is inserted into said nongenic sequence, wherein said nongenic maize genomic sequence of at least 1Kb is selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 655, SEQ ID NO: 1777, SEQ ID NO: 2037, SEQ ID NO: 2709, SEQ ID NO: 3357 and SEQ ID NO: 4552 or a sequence sharing 99% sequence identity with a sequence selected from said group and their respective complements thereof, wherein said nongenic sequence comprises the following characteristics: a. the level of methylation of said nongenic sequence is 1% or less; b. said nongenic sequence shares less than 40% sequence identity with any other sequence contained in the Zea mays genome; c. said nongenic sequence is located within a 40 Kb region of a known or predicted expressive maize coding sequence; and d. said nongenic sequence exhibits a recombination frequency within the maize genome of greater than 0.00041 cM/Mb and wherein said DNA of interest comprises a gene expression cassette comprising an insecticidal resistance gene, herbicide tolerance gene, nitrogen use efficiency gene, water use efficiency gene, nutritional quality gene, DNA binding gen, or selectable marker gene. a nongenic maize genomic sequence of at least 1Kb, said nongenic sequence being hypomethylated, targetable, located proximal to a genic region within a maize genome, and exemplifying evidence of recombination; and a DNA of interest, wherein the DNA of interest is inserted into said nongenic sequence, wherein said nongenic maize genomic sequence of at least 1Kb is selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 655, SEQ ID NO: 1777, SEQ ID NO: 2037, SEQ ID NO: 2709, SEQ ID NO: 3357 and SEQ ID NO: 4552 or a sequence sharing 99% sequence identity with a sequence selected from said group and their respective complements thereof, wherein said nongenic sequence comprises the following characteristics: a. the level of methylation of said nongenic sequence is 1% or less; b. said nongenic sequence shares less than 40% sequence identity with any other sequence contained in the Zea mays genome; c. said nongenic sequence is located within a 40 Kb region of a known or predicted expressive maize coding sequence; and d. said nongenic sequence exhibits a recombination frequency within the maize genome of greater than 0.00041 cM/Mb and wherein said DNA of interest comprises a gene expression cassette comprising an insecticidal resistance gene, herbicide tolerance gene, nitrogen use efficiency gene, water use efficiency gene, nutritional quality gene, DNA binding gen, or selectable marker gene. a. the level of methylation of said nongenic sequence is 1% or less; b. said nongenic sequence shares less than 40% sequence identity with any other sequence contained in the Zea mays genome; c. said nongenic sequence is located within a 40 Kb region of a known or predicted expressive maize coding sequence; and d. said nongenic sequence exhibits a recombination frequency within the maize genome of greater than 0.00041 cM/Mb