Question

What is the role of polyethylene glycol in somatic hybridization?

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 new hybrid plant with the characteristics of both, a somatic hybrid.[1]Hybrids have been produced either between different varieties of the same species (e.g. between non-flowering potato plants and flowering potato plants) or between two different species (e.g. between wheat Triticumand rye Secale to produce Triticale).

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Answer 2

chromosome tapping through somatic cell hybridization is essentially based on fusion of human and mouse somatic cells.......cell fusion is enhanced 100to 1000 times by addition of ultraviolet in activated sendai virus or polythene glycol