Plant dynamics and Climate Change in the Andes
Top Ten Botanic Gifts from the Andes
Newton Fund Workshop on Plant Dynamics and Climate Change in the Andes, Mendoza 2018
Solanum cantense
One of the 107 of wild crop relatives of potato (Solanum section Petota), endemic of the central Andes region in Peru.
Solanum candolleanum
A member of the wild crop relatives of potato growing in the high Andean Puna, above 4000 m.
Solanum corneliomulleri
A member of the wild crop relatives of tomato (Solanum section Lycopersicon), distributed in the western slopes of the Andes.
From the Andes to you frenchfries!
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- Solanum
- Text by: P. Gonzales
- Photo: P. Gonzales
Description
The genus Solanum is among the top ten most species-rich genera in the tropical Andes. This genus includes cultivated species of the world’s principal food crops such as potato and tomato. The Andes is the origin centre and the premier centre of Solanum diversity. Also, three of the four cultivated potato species only grown in the Andes, what represents a great genetic diversity linked to these amazing mountain ecosystems.
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