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The potato was the first domesticated vegetable in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia [1] between 8000 and 5000 BC. [2] . Cultivation of potatoes in South America may go back 10,000 years, [3] but tubers do not preserve well in the archaeological record, making identification difficult.
In 2009, potato blight wiped out most of the tomatoes and potatoes on the East Coast of the United States. Driven by an unusually wet summer, it turned gardens into slime.
United States of America was the last major country who adopted potato in their cuisine. For many years they regarded this crop for horses and other animals. Only after the 1872 efforts of famous horticulturist Luther Burbank (1849-1926), American potato industry managed to gain some traction.
Mar 3, 2020 · The humble potato was domesticated in the South American Andes some 8,000 years ago and was only brought to Europe in the mid-1500s, from where it spread west and northwards, back to the...
Sep 8, 2018 · Potatoes reached Mexico by 3000-2000 B.C., probably passing through Lower Central America or the Caribbean Islands. In Europe and North America, the South American root arrived only in the 16 th and 17 th century, respectively, after its importation by the first Spanish explorers.
It is believed Spanish sailors in the 1570s brought potatoes back with them across the Atlantic, having introduced them to ships’ stores as a hardy foodstuff that easily survived the long journeys between South America and Spain.
Most modern potatoes grown in North America arrived through European settlement and not independently from the South American sources. At least one wild potato species, S. fendleri, occurs in North America; it is used in breeding for resistance to a nematode species that attacks cultivated potatoes.
