potato and sweet potato both are tuberous and underground. Why is then one said to be modified stem and other as modified root?Give reasons in support of your answer.
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Potato is a stem and sweet potato is a root because the stem of the potato has undergone modifications in order to store food whereas in a sweet potato the root has undergone modifications in order to store the food......
Potato tubers develop at the end of swollen underground stem structures, rhizomes. Eyes of potatoes are really axillary buds which contain several small buds at each site. These buds can expand to form shoots which grow on to make whole plants. ... Although the common potato is a stem, the sweet potato is a modified root!.....
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