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. [2]

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The procedures that ensures retention of desired characteristics in a large population is tissue culture, micro-propagation or somaclonal propagation. [1]

In this proceduere, any part of a plant or explant is taken out and grown in a test tube or vessel under sterile conditions, in a special nutrient medium containing a carbon source such as sucrose, inorganic salts, vitamins, amino acids as well as growth regulators. [1]

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