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

Explanation

Yes, I is possible by somatic hybridisation. Isolated protoplast from plant cells of potato and tomato can be fused to get hybrid protoplast, which can be further grown to form a new plant. The plants produced through somatic hybridisation are called somatic hybrid.