Growing of potato by vegetative reproduction.
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Potatoes are indigenous to the Andean regions of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, extending northward to the southern Rocky Mountains. Potatoes purportedly came to North America via Bermuda in 1691. Cultivated potato, Solanum tuberosum L., is a highly heterozygous tetraploid (4x = 48), belongs to the Solanaceae family together with other crops like tomato and peppers. Potato is an annual dicot when grown for botanical seed, but is treated as a perennial because the vegetative propagation from tuber for commercial purposes.
Propagation
The tuber is not only the principal mean for potato propagation, but also a major human food source. Potatoes are mainly propagated by vegetative methods (cloning). This is the primary commercial propagation method. Vegetative reproduction ensures a uniform crop, contraire to what would happen with sexual propagation. Sexual propagation of potato is accomplished by planting its true seed, but a high variability exist between this seed and that is why is not commonly used. However, sexual seed is becoming more and more popular; especially in places were disease pressure is very high and maintaining disease free seed is becoming a problem.
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