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The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
A potato is a starchy vegetable that grows underground as part of the Solanum tuberosum plant and originally comes from the Americas. It matters because it serves as a staple food eaten widely across many parts of the world.
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Solanum tuberosum La Pomme de terre ou patate (dans le registre informel ou bien en français canadien ou belge) est un tubercule comestible produit par l’espèce Solanum tuberosum, appartenant à la famille des solanacées. Le terme désigne également la plante elle-même, plante herbacée, vivace par ses tubercules mais toujours cultivée comme une culture annuelle. La pomme de terre est une plante qui réussit dans la plupart des sols, mais elle préfère les sols légers et légèrement acides. La plante est sujette aux maladies dans des sols calcaires ou manquant d’humus[1]. La pomme de terre est originaire de la cordillère des Andes (Pérou), dans le Sud-Ouest de l’Amérique du Sud où son utilisation remonte à environ 8 000 ans. Introduite en Europe vers la fin du XVIe siècle à la suite de la découverte de l’Amérique par les conquistadors espagnols, elle s’est rapidement diffusée dans le monde et est en 2015 cultivée dans plus de 150 pays sous pratiquement toutes les latitudes habitées. Elle est une source importante de glucides, qui se présentent principalement sous forme de fécule[N 1], et selon son mode de cuisson elle peut apporter des quantités notables de protéines et de vitamines. Ses
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38,342 papers- Molecular Mechanisms of Dual Potato Reproduction.ReviewPhysiologia plantarum · 2025Kasprzewska A, Basińska-Barczak ADOI: 10.1111/ppl.70451
- New Frontiers in Potato Breeding: Tinkering with Reproductive Genes and Apomixis.ReviewBiomolecules · 2024Hojsgaard D, Nagel M, Feingold SE et al.DOI: 10.3390/biom14060614
- Phenolic Compounds in the Potato and Its Byproducts: An Overview.ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2016Akyol H, Riciputi Y, Capanoglu E et al.DOI: 10.3390/ijms17060835
- Potato and sweetpotato breeding at the international potato center: approaches, outcomes and the way forward.ReviewTAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023Lindqvist-Kreuze H, Bonierbale M, Grüneberg WJ et al.DOI: 10.1007/s00122-023-04515-7
- Potato post-dormancy sprouting: a problem during storage and its control by essential oils as alternatives to artifact chemicals - a review.ReviewJournal of the science of food and agriculture · 2025Lohani UC, Goraya RK, Ramalingam S et al.DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.14419
- Physiological and molecular mechanisms associated with potato tuber dormancy.ReviewJournal of experimental botany · 2024Dogramaci M, Dobry EP, Fortini EA et al.DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae182
- Potato glycoalkaloids and metabolites: roles in the plant and in the diet.ReviewJournal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2006Friedman MDOI: 10.1021/jf061471t
- Health benefits of the potato affected by domestic cooking: A review.ReviewFood chemistry · 2016Tian J, Chen J, Ye X et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.01.120
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The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile. Genetic studies show that the cultivated potato has a single origin, in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia. Potatoes were domesticated there about 7,000–10,000 years ago from a species in the S. brevicaule complex. Many varieties of the potato are cultivated in the Andes region of South America, where the species is indigenous.
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