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Mar 28, 2024 · potato, ( Solanum tuberosum ), annual plant in the nightshade family ( Solanaceae ), grown for its starchy edible tubers. The potato is native to the Peruvian-Bolivian Andes and is one of the world’s main food crops. Potatoes are frequently served whole or mashed as a cooked vegetable and are also ground into potato flour, used in baking and ...
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History of the potato. Potato ceramic from the Moche culture ( Larco Museum Collection ). 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 ...
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Leftover potatoes were cut up and planted and a new European crop was born. A decade after the potato made its entry into Spain, the crop was introduced to the British Isles. Uptake of this newfangled vegetable was initially slow. Farmers distrusted the plant, with some believing it caused fever and even leprosy.
The continent simply could not reliably feed itself. The potato changed all that. Every year, many farmers left fallow as much as half of their grain land, to rest the soil and fight weeds (which ...
Species: S. tuberosum. Binomial name. Solanum tuberosum. L. The potato ( / pəˈteɪtoʊ /) is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. [2] Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
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May 15, 2007 · 15 May 2007. Share: For a simple, brown tuber, potatoes have a long and storied history. Ancient Incans worshipped them; the Irish blamed them for a famine. Today, they are the fourth largest food crop in the world. Now, scientists have shed new light on just where these tubers came from. A genetic study shows that modern potatoes were ...
Sep 8, 2018 · Updated on September 08, 2018. Potato (Solanum tuberosum) belongs to the Solanaceae family, which also includes tomatoes, eggplants, and chili peppers. Potato is currently the second widest used staple crop in the world. It was first domesticated in South America, in the Andean highlands, between Peru and Bolivia, more than 10,000 years ago.
