I need to know every thing there is to know on Potatoes?

Answer 1

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, commonly grown for its starchy tuber. Potatoes are the world's most widely grown tuber crop, and the fourth largest crop in terms of fresh produce (after rice, wheat, and maize), but this ranking is inflated due to the high water content of fresh potatoes relative to that of other crops. The potato originated in South America, somewhere in present-day Chile or Peru. Potatoes are important to the culture of the Andes, where farmers grow many different varieties that have a remarkable diversity of colors and shapes. Potatoes spread to the rest of the world after European contact with the Americas in the late 1400s and early 1500s and have since become an important field crop.
Potato plant
Potato plants have a low-growing habit and bear white to purple flowers with yellow stamens.
Potato varieties bear flowers containing asexual parts. Flowers are mostly cross-pollinated by other potato plants, including by insects, but a substantial amount of self-fertilizing occurs. Any potato variety can also be propagated vegetatively by planting pieces of existing tubers, cut to include at least one eye. Some commercial varieties of potatoes do not produce seeds at all (they bear imperfect, single-sex flowers) and are propagated only from tuber pieces. Confusingly, these pieces can bear the name "seed potatoes".
After potato plants flower, some varieties will produce small green fruit that look similar to green cherry-tomatoes. These produce seeds like other fruits. Each of the fruits can contain up to 300 true seeds. One can separate seeds from the fruits by putting them in a blender on a slow speed with some water, then leaving them in water for a day so that the seeds will sink and the rest of the fruit will float. However, some horticulturists sell chimeras made by grafting a tomato plant onto a potato plant, which can produce both edible tomatoes and potatoes.

Answer 2

Potato,edible starchy tuber produced by certain plants of the genus Solanum in the Nightshade family,especially the common white potato,S.tuberosum. The name is also applied to plants of this and other species of the genus bearing such tubers.The white potato tuber is a food staple in most countries of the temperate regions of the world.The plant is grown s an annual herb; the stem attains a length of 1 to 3 feet,erect or prostate, with pointed leaves and white to purple flowers.The most important diseases of the potato is late blight, cause by fungus Phytophthora infestans, which rot leaves stems and tubers.The early blight cause by Alternaria solani, is not so destructive but causes lesions that permit entry of the various forms of bacterial rot.Several forms of mosaic disease and leaf curl are caused by infection with viruses. The Colorado potato beetle,Leptinotarsa decemlineatum, is the most destructive of the insect pests;other insect pests include the potato leaf hopper, Empoasca fabae, the potato flea beetle, Epitrix cumeris, and several species of aphids and psyllids. Well I hope I help u a bit this was in he Funk&Wagnalls new Encyclopedia.

Answer 3

If all else fells-- google it!

If it grows in the dirt, it's beneficial because it's a gift from the source. I love potatoes but you know they break down as sugar so here's where the moderation thing is in play. I like to just cut up one and boil it with garlic cloves, tumeric, cumin, salt and pepper. I eat this for breakfast or snack. Or sometimes I just boil one with some tomatoe sauce and fresh gingerroot and garlic. Or for the imfamous french fry I bake em in the oven tossed with olive oil and my spice sprinkle (onion pwdr, garlic pwdr, cumin, corriander, tumeric, ginger pwdr, cayenne pepper, and sea salt). Today, I just sauteed some leeks with red onion and garlic and cut up a potato added some water and oh what a joyous soup that was. I could go on...

Answer 4

Potatoes have Eyes. I like them; Fried, Mashed, Au Gratin, Scalloped and any other way. There this one dish women do, I a good cook, but, that woman touch seem to do something, anyway, it like potatoes, sour cream, cheese, and topped with Corn Flakes. It is awesome. I guess I could learn it, but, prefer to give them Kisses to make it.

Answer 5

The best place you can look into, is :

"international potato center"

I worked in the center for 20 years (administration)
Its the international center in Peru, that scientifically investigates potatoes in the world.
You can write them for additional information.

Answer 6

Potoatoes are the worlds first and foremost mystery. No one really knows anything about them except they grow on trees and are sometimes found dancing in their natural habitat.

No im no expert, but i did stay in a holiday inn last night.

Answer 7

All organic foodstuff incorporates some water. Even dehydrated culmination incorporates a hint of water. once you chew into an orange and each and each and every of the juice comes out, it truly is almost continuously water. Water is the theory of each and everything.