potato
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Lucy Munns, a potato farmer in Cambridgeshire, said the hot weather will stunt the root vegetable's growth, leading to oddly shaped tubers that supermarkets and chip shops, which she supplies, wouldn't normally buy.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
He said the new findings provide unusually strong evidence that natural selection acted on this gene in the Andes after potato cultivation began.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
You can’t help but grin at Sessa’s hoot when his scrawny Tony finally manages to muscle a raw potato through a french-fry slicer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Every potato batch you get is going to be different,” Cedrik Neike, member of the Managing Board and CEO Digital Industries at Siemens, tells the WSJ Leadership Institute’s Isabelle Bousquette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
She followed the woman’s gaze to the rotten potato in her own hand.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Once potatoes became an important food source, however, people with higher AMY1 copy numbers appear to have gained an evolutionary advantage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
We walk on, through a field of potatoes, the plants shrivelled to nothing and lying brown on the soil.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
It turns out it’s not what you mix into the dish that makes it delicious—it’s how you cook the potatoes.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Idaho french-fry maker Lamb Weston Holdings said it raised prices in North America to counteract rising costs for everything but potatoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Momma Rossi, gray-haired and a bit shorter than her son, stood at the sink peeling sweet potatoes.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
