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The 30 pages that link to Potato, each with the reason it gives.

• Columbian ExchangeBroader topic: Its movement from the Americas transformed diets and population growth in parts of Europe and Asia.

• Vegetative reproductionBroader topic: Its tuber eyes demonstrate how vegetative buds sustain a major food crop.

• TomatoRelated: Tomato and potato belong to the same genus but are eaten as different plant parts.

• PlantainCompared with: Both serve as versatile cooked staples, but plantain is a fruit from a tropical herb.

• Enzymatic browningBroader topic: Cut or bruised potato tissue can develop enzymatic discoloration during preparation and storage.

• CassavaCompared with: Potato is another global starch staple, but its edible part is a tuber rather than a storage root.

• StolonCompared with: Potato tubers form on rhizomes, illustrating a contrasting underground stem strategy.

• SolanaceaeBroader topic: Its tubers make a South American solanaceous plant a global staple.

• French friesNarrower topic: The potato’s global spread made fries possible far beyond their debated European birthplace.

• Great Famine (Ireland)Narrower topic: Its high yield on small plots made it indispensable to many Irish households before the blight.

• Andean agricultureRelated: Potatoes are central to highland farming and have many varieties adapted to local conditions.

• German cuisineRelated: After becoming widespread in Germany, potatoes became central to many everyday and festive dishes.

• Sweet potatoCompared with: Despite the shared name and culinary uses, potato is a distant botanical relative.

• Colorado potato beetleRelated: The spread of cultivated potatoes gave the beetle a highly suitable new host.

• Phytophthora infestansRelated: Potato leaves and tubers are major hosts of the pathogen.

• Staple foodBroader topic: Potatoes became a major source of calories in several temperate regions.

• Inca agricultureRelated: Potatoes grew at high elevations and formed a major part of Andean diets.

• Potato saladNarrower topic: The cooked tuber supplies the salad’s defining ingredient and texture.

• ConvolvulaceaeCompared with: Its tubers are often confused with sweet-potato roots, though the plants belong to different families.

• History of foodBroader topic: Its movement from the Americas transformed diets and population patterns elsewhere.

• SamosaRelated: Potatoes are the most familiar base for many samosa fillings.

• Carolus ClusiusBroader topic: His observations are among the early records of the potato in European botanical literature.

• Shepherd’s pieNarrower topic: The potato’s arrival in Europe made the dish’s defining topping possible.

• SolanineNarrower topic: Potatoes are the principal dietary source of solanine and related glycoalkaloids.

• Clements MarkhamRelated: Markham promoted its introduction to India after studying the crop’s history and cultivation.

• Eva EkebladNarrower topic: The crop was central to Ekeblad’s experiments in food and alcohol production.

• Helminthosporium solaniRelated: The fungus infects tuber skin, including harvested tubers used as seed potatoes.

• Russet BurbankNarrower topic: Russet Burbank is one cultivated variety within this globally important crop.

• Waru WaruRelated: Potatoes are among the crops grown in Andean raised-bed systems.

• Yukon Gold potatoNarrower topic: Yukon Gold is one cultivated variety of this tuber-producing species.