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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:46 pm |
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Tenkai wrote: potato offsprings: tater tots. well dua
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:56 pm |
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tomato offsprings: cherry tomatoes
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:58 pm |
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who cares about them.
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 11:14 pm |
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cool people. stop being uncool with your potatoes.
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:29 am |
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cool fact from a farmer
if you plant tomatos and potatos too close then the potatos will have a tomato on them
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:33 am |
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gunsgunsguns wrote: cool fact from a farmer
if you plant tomatos and potatos too close then the potatos will have a tomato on them but still............ potatoes rock
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:43 am |
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yes they do
potatos use to be poisonous, did you know that?
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:48 am |
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I prefer sweet potatoes... they can be a deadly weapon
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:50 am |
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aister wrote: I prefer sweet potatoes... they can be a deadly weapon still a potato.
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Post subject: Re: Monthly Chat Thread: May: topic: Potato Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:57 am |
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In the words of the almighty wikipedia i bring these words of wisdom.
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades). The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes were first introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's cuisine. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat and maize. Long-term storage of potatoes requires specialised care in cold warehouses.
Wild potato species occur throughout the Americas, from the United States to Uruguay. The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia (from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex), where they were domesticated 7,000–10,000 years ago. Following centuries of selective breeding, there are now over a thousand different types of potatoes. Of these subspecies, a variety that at one point grew in the Chiloé Archipelago (the potato's south-central Chilean sub-center of origin) left its germplasm on over 99% of the cultivated potatoes worldwide.
Following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, the Spanish introduced the potato to Europe in the second half of the 16th century. The staple was subsequently conveyed by European mariners to territories and ports throughout the world. The potato was slow to be adopted by distrustful European farmers, but soon enough it became an important food staple and field crop that played a major role in the European 19th century population boom. However, lack of genetic diversity, due to the very limited number of varieties initially introduced, left the crop vulnerable to disease. In 1845, a plant disease known as late blight, caused by the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, spread rapidly through the poorer communities of western Ireland, resulting in the crop failures that led to the Great Irish Famine. Thousands of varieties still persist in the Andes however, where over 100 cultivars might be found in a single valley, and a dozen or more might be maintained by a single agricultural household. Besides the need of ensuring proper genetic diversity of a crop, it also underscores the need of depending on several staple crops, and to preferably choose staple crops that are endemic and thus adapted to the local environment.
The annual diet of an average global citizen in the first decade of the 21st century included about 33 kg (73 lb) of potato. However, the local importance of potato is extremely variable and rapidly changing. It remains an essential crop in Europe (especially eastern and central Europe), where per capita production is still the highest in the world, but the most rapid expansion over the past few decades has occurred in southern and eastern Asia. China is now the world's largest potato-producing country, and nearly a third of the world's potatoes are harvested in China and India.
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