Description

Solanum tuberosum is a root vegetable native to the Americas, and the plant itself is a perennial in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The dialysate of potatoes can inhibit the mutagenic function of some cancerogen to salmonella typhimurium.

Scientific classitication

Family: Solanaceae

Genus: Solanum

Common Name

potato

Reference

Natascha van Lieshout, Ate van der Burgt, Michiel E de Vries, Menno ter Maat, David Eickholt, Danny Esselink, Martijn P W van Kaauwen, Linda P Kodde, Richard G F Visser, Pim Lindhout, Richard Finkers, Solyntus, the New Highly Contiguous Reference Genome for Potato (Solanum tuberosum), G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 10, Issue 10, 1 October 2020, Pages 3489–3495, https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.120.401550