Just Create: Potato fruit edition

[dianec42]

Did you know that potato plants produce fruit? I did not know this until this summer.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I did know about potatoes. Trouble is, humans have bred potatoes to the point that few of them are capable of reproducing sexually anymore. They're almost all clones. And there's a limit to how long you can copy anything before it just quits working. This isn't the only clone-dominated crop -- garlic, onions, and some others are in similar straits -- and even many crops produced from seed are badly damaged and no longer reproduce well.

https://lofthouse.com/botanical-potato-seed.phtml

https://lofthouse.com/true-garlic-seed.phtml

https://lofthouse.com/cytoplasmic-male-sterility.phtml