Question

What are somatic hybrids? How are they produced?

Answer 1

Somatic fusion, also called protoplast fusion, is a type of genetic modification in plants by which two distinct species of plants are fused together to form a newhybrid plant with the characteristics of both, a somatic hybrid

Answer 2

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It is a modern approaching in plant breeding, wherein the species barrier can be overcome by the somatic cell fusion to form viable hybrids. Somatic hybridization is generally used for induce disease resistance and improve certain qualities in the plants. Pomato is one such example which is a hybrid of potato and tomato.

Somatic fusion is also called protoplast fusion, because this is a type of genetic modification in plants by two distinct species of plants are fused together to form a new hybrid plant with the characteristics of the both, somatic hybrid.


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