Abstract:In order to study the effects of marker-assisted selection (MAS) in the breeding on the maize head smut resistance. Ji1037 was used as the resistance source, while the susceptible inbred line 8092, one of parents of hybrid Jidan209, was used as recurrent parent backcrossing for five generations. After that self-pollination was done for two generations. The susceptible parent 8902 was converted to resistant inbred lines by MAS and phenotypic selection after BC4F1 made crosses with Ji853, and evaluated for its resistance to the head smut, yield and agronomic traits. The results showed that the convert 8902 and hybrid combinations of disease resistance and yield to head smut increased significantly, and no significant changes were found in other agronomical traits, while resistant lines were converted above 80%, and more than 77% of converted hybrid combinations showed disease resistant, and the yield of convert combinations were increased significantly, 11 hybrid combinations increased yield more than 10% to 26.7%. Taken together, the marker-assisted breeding was an efficient way for improving head smut resistance of maize inbred lines and hybrid.