Potatoes, native to the Andes, originally grew tubers only during winter as a way ... crossing farm potatoes with wild or traditional varieties that naturally have altered nitrate reductase ...

We often notice this awakening at home when older potatoes begin to sprout.” In wild potatoes, tuber formation is strictly dependent on short days. However, modern cultivars carry mutations in a ...

Potatoes are a versatile and rewarding crop for any gardener, providing a bounty of delicious tubers with minimal effort.

While the above ground green shoots put out new leaves and stems the underground tubers form and swell. Edible portions of ...

IN an investigation of the growth- and inhibiting-substances in the potato tuber in relation to its rest period, Hemberg 1 has shown that potato peelings contain an acid and a neutral growth ...