The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) released nine new maize lines, which are especially valuable for breeders seeking drought tolerance or tar spot complex disease resistance.  The new inbred lines are not intended to be used directly in commercial hybrids but rather by breeders as sources of novel alleles for traits of economic importance. These lines could also be of interest to maize researchers who are not breeders but are studying the underlying genetic mechanisms of abiotic and biotic traits.