• Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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    2 hours ago

    I listened to a podcast recently about potatoes. The ones in Europe are all one species. They can’t grow variants from seeds because they have 4 chromosomes which means growing from seeds doesn’t give the same variant. They are basically clones. If a variant is lost it cannot be brought back, it’s gone for good.

    I never knew how interesting potatoes are!