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May 27, 2024 · Mutualisms between plants and fruit-eating animals were key to the radiation of angiosperms. Still, phylogenetic uncertainties limit our understanding of fleshy-fruit evolution, as in the case of Solanum, a genus with remarkable fleshy-fruit diversity, but with unresolved phylogenetic relationships.
- 27 May 2024
- 243, Issue2
It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae, comprising around 1,500 species. It also contains the so-called horse nettles (unrelated to the genus of true nettles, Urtica), as well as numerous plants cultivated for their ornamental flowers and fruit.
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a flowering plant (angiosperm) and would typically be classified as: Plant Kingdom, flowering plant phylum (Magnoliophyta = Anthophyta), dicot class (now usually considered the Eudicot class), potato order (Solanales), potato family (Solanaceae). Other members of this family include: tomato, pepper, tobacco, nightshade...
Potato is an herbaceous plant with a typical plant structure of below-ground roots and above-ground shoots with leaves. Like tulips and a number of other plants, the above-ground stem and leaves are ‘annual’, i.e. they die every year. The plant is perennial because a below-ground portion survives and perpetuates the organism. The perennating part i...
Potatoes reproduce sexually by flowers (the flowers are basically the same structure as petunias, a close relative) but are generally propagated vegetatively from the tubers. Although it is grown as an annual crop, it is perennial in the wild. Tubers are planted in the spring and the tubers are harvested in the fall after the annual shoots have die...
Like most plants, potatoes are photosynthetic autotroph s, acquiring carbon from the atmosphere, water from the soil and another 14 essential elements from ions and solutes dissolved in soil water.
Potato ’s interactions with humans have been extremely significant, both by being the primary food source for several regions and also for the disruption caused when crops failed, disruptions whose consequences were felt for many years in multiple regions (read about the Irish potato famine and its effects on the United States). The causal organism...
- George M. Briggs
- 2021
Solanum is one of the largest angiosperm genera and the largest Solanaceae genus with >1,300 species. The nuclear phylogeny of Solanum was analyzed using target-captured data sets of 39 species (Gagnon et al., 2022) or 1,699 genes from 81 species (Huang et al., 2023) with resolved
Oct 13, 2021 · Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are an herbaceous plant, native to South America, that has been cultivated by indigenous peoples for five to ten thousand years but only became cultivated world-wide in the last 500 years. Growingat high elevations of Peru and Bolivia, it was a staple crop of the Incas, who developed a freeze-dry preservation ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Solanum aculeatissimum and Solanum torvum, two wild relatives of the eggplant, exhibit remarkable tenacity and resilience, particularly in their resistance to soil-borne diseases like wilt and yellow wilt [10]. Additionally, they possess certain medicinal and edible qualities.
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Sep 25, 2008 · Longitudinally opening anthers are the most common form in angiosperms (Endress, 1994, 1996). Nevertheless, other mechanisms of anther opening exist, which may respond to different stomium shapes (for example, valvate anthers in Hamamelididae; Hufford & Endress, 1989) and/or to different histological structures (for example, poricidal anthers ...
