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What is the alternative method mentioned for obtaining distant hybrids with useful agronomic traits?
Somatic cell hybridisation
What is the term used for the hybrids obtained through somatic cell hybridisation?
Somatic hybrids
Who developed the first inter-genetic somatic hybrids between Solanum tuberosum and Lycopersicon esculentum?
Melchers and his team
In which year was the first inter-specific somatic hybrid produced between Nicotiana glauca and N. langsdorffii?
1972
What is it possible to produce through protoplast fusion?
Cytoplasmic hybrids (cybrids)
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