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The following points highlight the top eight practical applications of protoplast culture. Application # 1. Production of Somatic Hybrids: To overcome the sexual incompatibility barriers the protoplast fusion programme may be taken to obtain the interspecific and inter-generic hybrids. For example, the fusion between Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato) and Solanum tuberosum (potato) have been possible to obtain the somatic hybrid 'Pomato', [...]