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Reasons for protoplast culture |
| Protoplasts can be induced to fuse
to produce a hybrid plant, which cannot be produced by conventional plant breeding due to incompatibility. |
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| Isolated protoplast are capable of ingesting "foreign" material into the cytoplasm. This material includes the introduction of nuclei, chloroplasts, mitochondria, DNA, plasmids, bacteria and viruses. |
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| Protoplast can be used to study wall synthesis and deposition |
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| Protoplasts can be studied as single cell systems |
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