Fuente: WIPO "tomato" A method of expressing an agronomically or non-agronomically beneficial trait in a plant plastid comprising expressing an exogenous nucleic acid in the plant to produce non-photosynthetic mutant plants, and using callus grown from the mutant plants as recipients for introduction of a construct having a functional copy of the mutated gene and a gene conferring an agronomically or non-agronomically beneficial trait. Embodiments provide for mutations in chloroplast-encoded genes, as well as mutations in nuclear-encoded genes targeted to the chloroplast that are required for photosynthesis, plants and plant parts produced from such methods, as well as kits for performing the methods as described.