The CIP genebank has the largest in vitro collection of potato types — more than 4,600 native varieties, around 3,000 of which are from Peru — and most of the potato’s wild relatives.

Since 1978, the Peru-based CIP has been working in China to help improve potato and sweet potato ... Among CIP's most notable ...

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — Peru is a native place of potatoes, and China is a leading potato producing country in the world. The decades-long bilateral cooperation in potato research and breeding ...

Forget the Incas, Machu Picchu or the Andean condor - Peru prides itself on being home of the potato, writes Thomas Bywater ...

Long before there was the restaurant-quality twice-baked potato or a healthy fast food ... either — there are actually more ...

It is one of the most consumed foods in Peru, sweet potato ... The International Potato Center (CIP) preserves more than 2,000 varieties of sweet potato, among which is the purple one.