Methods of producing somatic hybrid and cybrid organisms

Abstract

Methods of producing a hybrid organism. The methods include providing a first organism, providing a second organism, providing a fusing medium, combining the first organism and the second organism in or on the fusing medium to define a fusion environment, and initiating somatic fusion between the first organism and the second organism in the fusion environment to produce the hybrid organism. The first organism is either a plant organism or a fungus organism. The second organism is either a plant organism or a fungus organism. In some examples, the first organism is Tuber melanosporum . In certain examples, the second organism is either Panaeolus cambodginiensis or Panaeolus cyanescens . In some examples, the methods include incubating the hybrid organism, regenerating cell walls of the hybrid organism, and/or replicating the hybrid organism.

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