reproduction in sweet pottato
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Asexual reproduction
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Unlike the potato, which is a tuber, or thickened stem, the sweetpotato that we eat is the storage root of the plant; an enlarged lateral root.
The plant reproduces in three ways: from seed, from the actual storage roots, or from the plant vines.
Sweetpotato is cultivated by vegetative propagation. Growers take stem cuttings from the vines, which then root and form new storage roots. In some colder climates, where vines do not develop well, producers will plant roots. Botanical seed is used in breeding programs.
The plant’s vine system expands rapidly horizontally on the ground, and planting material can be easily and quickly multiplied from very few roots. Roots mature on average about four months after planting, with some early maturing varieties ready at two months.