| However, lack of genetic diversity, due to the very limited number of varieties initially introduced, left the crop vulnerable to disease | Potatoes are boiled between 10 and 25 minutes, depending on size and type, to become soft |
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| "On the Digestibility of Raw Potato Starch in Man" | The History and Social Influence of the Potato, Cambridge University Press originally published in 1949; reprinted 1985 with new introduction and corrections by J |
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| 38 others as brief "archive" chapters• In , the potato, as well as being a staple with most dishes, is featured in the hearty locro de papas, a thick soup of potato, squash, and cheese | There is one pentaploid cultivated species with 60 chromosomes : S |
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| The yield of potatoes—about 95 gigajoules per hectare 9 | Another GM potato variety developed by BASF is 'Fortuna' which was made resistant to by adding two resistance genes, blb1 and blb2, which originate from the Mexican wild potato Solanum bulbocastanum |
In the winter, roadside sellers in northern China will also sell roasted potatoes.