Question : 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.

Question : Tissue culture is a fast and efficient system for crop impr

1.	Question : 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.
Answer» Solution :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.