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Protoplasts from two different sources are isolated and allowed to randomly fuse with each other. Name this process and indicate how this fusion can be done. Give its agricultural importance.

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The name of the technique is Protoplast Fusion and chemicals fusion like PEG can be used to fuse protoplasts from two different plants/ Electro-fusion.

Somatic hybrids and Cybrids can be produced using this method.

Example: Intergeneric somatic hybrid between potato and tomato called Pomato/Topato or inter specifc somatic hybrid between two species of Nicotiana.

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