Patent ID: 7847163

Claim:
A method for producing an AOB 176-derived tobacco plant comprising: (a) crossing tobacco cultivar AOB 176, representative seed of said tobacco cultivar AOB 176 having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-9590, with a second tobacco plant to yield progeny tobacco seed; (b) growing said progeny tobacco seed, under plant growth conditions, to yield said AOB 176-derived tobacco plant; (c) crossing said AOB 176-derived tobacco plant with itself or another tobacco plant to yield additional AOB 176-derived progeny tobacco seed; (d) growing said progeny tobacco seed of step (a) under plant growth conditions, to yield additional AOB 176-derived tobacco plants; and (e) repeating the crossing and growing steps of (a) and (b) from 0 to 7 times to generate further AOB 176-derived tobacco plants.