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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
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You have obtained a high yielding variety of tomato. Name and explain the procedure that ensures retention of the desired characteristics repeatedly in large populations of future generations of the tomato crop.

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  1. Micropropagation (a type of vegetative propagation) ensures retention of the desired characteristics repeatedly in large populations of future generations of the tomato crop.
  2. A small part of the plant is excised and grown under a sterile condition in special nutrient medium to obtain many such plants which would be genetically identical to the original plants.

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