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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 145. Chapters: Squash, Tobacco, Peanut, Potato, Tapioca, Chili pepper, Capsicum, Cassava, Coca, Sweet potato, Vanilla, Pineapple, Cocoa bean, Cashew, Carica papaya, Quinoa, Sisal, Ceiba pentandra, Arrowroot, Avocado, Guava, Bell pepper, Muscadine, Maize, Tomato, Pumpkin, Phaseolus vulgaris, Jatropha curcas, Agave, Chayote, Pitaya, Juglans cinerea, Wild rice, Jerusalem artichoke, Opuntia ficus-indica, Acca sellowiana, Sunflower seed, Erythroxylum novogranatense, Manilkara zapota, Vitis labrusca, Hevea brasiliensis, Fique, Amaranth grain, Pachyrhizus erosus, Hylocereus undatus, Oxalis tuberosa, Platonia, Hylocereus megalanthus, Tomatillo, Hylocereus costaricensis, Blue corn, Ugni molinae, Babaco, Peperoncini, Berberis microphylla, Adirondack Red potato, Italian sweet pepper, Psidium friedrichsthalium, Hatch chile. Excerpt: 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 (from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex), where they were domesticated 7,000-10,000 y...
