Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

Who produced the somatic hybrid ‘pomato’ by fusing potato and tomato protoplasts?

Correct answer A. Melchers et al (1978)

Explanation

In 1978 Georg Melchers and colleagues fused protoplasts of potato and tomato to produce the pomato, an early demonstration of somatic hybridisation between sexually incompatible species.

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