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Research draft

potato

vr.tr.potato · PHY.LIV

Let an agent handle potatoes by variety, growing, storage, cooking, food safety and plant health, and separate sweet potatoes.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle potatoes by variety, growing, storage, cooking, food safety and plant health, and separate sweet potatoes.

A perennial plant, Solanum tuberosum, grown for its starchy tubers, first domesticated in the Andes and now a major staple crop worldwide, with many cultivars such as waxy and floury types; green or sprouted parts contain toxic glycoalkaloids, and sweet potatoes belong to a different species.

What it is for: Food, agriculture and industry.

It can be choose potato varieties for cooking or growing; grow and store potatoes; avoid green or sprouted parts; recognise and report plant diseases such as blight.

Distinguishing features

Starchy tuber

Andean origin

Major staple

Toxic green parts

What it looks like

Underground tubers with brown, red, yellow or purple skins, and leafy plants with flowers.

How it is recognised

Tubers with eyes

Leafy plants with white or purple flowers

Sweet potatoes are unrelated roots

Related models

is a kind of - category

useful plant

is related to - family

nightshade family

is affected by - disease

late blight

is confused with - different species

sweet potato

In practice

Families and kinds

waxy potatoes

floury potatoes

early and maincrop potatoes

Andean native varieties

industrial potatoes

Standards and regulation

Seed potato certification

Plant health rules on potato pests

Food labelling rules

Failure modes and hazards

Glycoalkaloid poisoning from green potatoes

Spreading blight or pests

Burns from hot oil when frying

Also called

Champion potatowaxy potatoKita-akariAllqa culebraTika Bole potato cultivarPurple sweet potato cultivarMaltese potatoOpperdoezer RondeBamberg potatoAmandine potatoRed Pontiac potatoBelle de FontenayBéa PotatoesChacasinaLenapeIrish LumperMagnum BonumOzette potatoPomme de terre de PertuisPompadour (potato)Quarantina Bianca GenoveseRusset Burbank potatoGundaMāori potatoesVivaldi potatoYukon Gold

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.potato-plant

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Variety Choosing potatoes.

Varieties differ.

Cooking

Waxy or floury.

Cooking

Cooking types.

  1. Is this variety waxy or floury, and which dishes does it suit? provenance
  2. Which variety register describes it? provenance

Origin

Andean heritage.

Origin

Origin.

  1. Where and when were potatoes domesticated, according to research? provenance
  2. Which native varieties are conserved in the Andes? provenance
Grow Growing.

Plant health matters.

Planting

Planting and care.

Planting

Planting.

  1. When and how should seed potatoes be planted and earthed up? provenance
  2. Should certified seed be used? provenance

Blight

Diseases.

Blight

Blight and pests.

  1. Are the plants showing signs of late blight or notifiable pests? boundary
  2. What should be done, and must it be reported? provenance
Food Storage and safety.

Safety first.

Green

Green and sprouted.

Green

Green potatoes.

  1. Are the potatoes green or sprouting, and what do food safety authorities advise? provenance
  2. Has someone become ill after eating them? boundary

Storage

Keeping potatoes.

Storage

Storage.

  1. How should potatoes be stored to avoid greening and sprouting? provenance
  2. Should they be kept away from light? action
Senses Disambiguation.

Potato has other senses.

Sweet potato

Different crop.

Sweet potato

Sweet potato.

  1. Is sweet potato meant, which is a different species? boundary
  2. Which entry fits? action

History

Famines and trade.

History

History.

  1. How did potatoes shape history, such as the Irish famine, according to historians? provenance
  2. Is the description sensitive to those affected? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should cultivars be separate entries?
  • How should variety registers be linked?
  • How should sweet potato be split off?
Draft as JSON