Martin Mejia / AP Images When potato plants bloom ... potatoes are grown not from seed but from little chunks of tuber—the misnamed “seed potatoes.” Continental farmers regarded this ...

It uses this same method to “teach” potato plants to produce the egg white protein ovalbumin. In both cases, as the plants grow in the soil, they produce within the tuber the desired proteins ...

While the above ground green shoots put out new leaves and stems the underground tubers form and swell. Edible portions of ...

The introduction of potatoes to France in the late 16th century sparked significant resistance before becoming a staple of French cuisine.