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Tissue culture is a fast and efficient system for crop improvement. Scientists in a research institution wants to produce a hybrid of potato and tomato. Is it possible to make such a hybrid? If possible, explain how.

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Yes. It is possible by somatic hybridisation.
Isolated protoplasts from plant cells of potato and tomato can be fused to get hybrid protoplast, which can be further grown to form a new plant.These hybrids are called somatic hybrids.
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