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= **Potato Farming:** =

Potato farming is a surprisingly delicate and intricate process that includes a potato leaving tubers behind. These tubers have an excessive storage of starch in their roots (Wachman). This starch provides enough energy for the new potato. The new potato uses this energy to grow a green stem (Wachman). This allows the potato to use the process of photosynthesis to make its own food. A potato only needs one spud to reproduce its self (Steane).

Some contributing factors to potato growth rates include; temperature, soil content, herbicides, and the amount of starch in the tubers roots (Dwell/Love). If the mother plant was bitten by an aphid there is a high likeliness that the offspring of that plant will have diseases (Steane). Aphids can carry diseases that are extremely harmful to potato plants (Steane). Warm and wet seasons particularly in july are especially bad for disease (Steane). That's why plants from Scotland are very productive. It is too cold for aphids there, so the mother plant has not been infected (Steane).

A large amount of potato reproduction is being engineered (Dwell/Love).

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