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Protopalsts are the cells with out the cell walls. The cell walls of these cells are removed either mechanically or enzymatically. Nowadays, these protopalsts are used in the plant tissue culture techniques.
Protoplasts are used as starting materials to transfer foreign genes into plants. Protoplast is usually isolated from a cell and inserted into the selected one in a process called protoplast fusion.