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Potatoes are underground 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 .
Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae , comprising around 1,500 species.
The Solanaceae family includes a number of commonly collected or cultivated species. The most economically important genus of the family is Solanum, which contains the potato (S. tuberosum, in fact, another common name of the family is the "potato family"), the tomato (S. lycopersicum), and the eggplant or aubergine (S. melongena).
Detail of the flowers of Solanum dulcamara, one of the 1240 accepted taxa that make up the genus Solanum (), along with economically important species such as the potato (S. tuberosum), the tomato (S. lycopersicum) and the aubergine (S. melongena).
Solanum etuberosum is a species of wild potato in the family Solanaceae, endemic to central Chile. [1] Although it does not bear tubers (or has tubers that are little more than thickened rhizomes), it is still being extensively studied for its resistance to Potato virus Y , Potato leafroll virus , green peach aphids , and frost.
Solanoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Solanaceae, and is sister to the subfamily Nicotianoideae.Within Solanaceae, Solanoideae contains some of the most economically important genera and species, such as the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), potato (Solanum tuberosum), eggplant or aubergine (Solanum melongena), chili and bell peppers (Capsicum spp.), mandrakes (Mandragora spp ...
Solanum triquetrum; Solanum tuberosum (previous page) This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The potato, Solanum tuberosum, has at least 438 taxonomic synonyms, as listed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew website Plants of the World Online. [1] Synonyms