The specificity of staining in WTV tumors with Af and Af but not with NS and Af or with antiserum to potato yellow-dwarf virus and Af, and the absence of such staining in crown gall tumor tissue from sweet-clover, indicate that an antigen of WTV was being stained.

A sympathetic friend made poultices of raw potato parings, which she said was the best and quickest way to draw out the `` heat ''.

In northern Europe, new technological innovations such as the heavy plough and the three-field system were not as effective in clearing new fields for harvest as they had been in the Mediterranean because the north had poor clay soil, and the potato, otherwise ideal for Northern Europe, was an American crop unknown in Europe at the time.

The cane toad was successfully introduced into New Guinea to control the hawk moth larvae eating sweet potato crops.

The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 – 1847 potato famine was identified.

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s was caused by a plant disease that reached the Highlands in 1846, where 150, 000 people faced disaster because their food supply was largely potatoes ( with a little herring, oatmeal and milk ).

Quayle was widely lambasted for his apparent inability to spell the word " potato ".

More recently, in the 18th century, the sweet potato was taken to New Guinea, having been introduced to the Moluccas from South America by Portuguese traders, representing the locally dominant colonial power.

The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia ( from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex ), where they were domesticated 7, 000 – 10, 000 years ago.

Pei writes, " the potato, for its part, was in disrepute some centuries ago.

According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900.

The potato was slow to be adopted by distrustful European farmers, but soon enough it became an important food staple and field crop that played a major role in the European 19th century population boom.

The average world farm yield for potato was 17. 4 tonnes per hectare, in 2010.

In France, the most notable potato dish is the Hachis Parmentier, named after Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, a French pharmacist, nutritionist, and agronomist who, in the late 18th century, was instrumental in the acceptance of the potato as an edible crop in the country.

According to a traditional story, the original potato chip recipe was created in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853.

The early potato chip bag was wax paper with the ends ironed or stapled together.

Kettle Foods was founded in 1978 and currently sells only trans fat-free products, including potato chips.

The only currency in use on the island at this time was the potato, and islanders labouring to construct the station were paid in kind with naval supplies for their own use, such as wood, paint and tea.

When potato blight hit the island in 1846, much of the rural population was left without food because cash crops were being exported to pay rents.

The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 – 1847 potato famine was identified.

In Nordic countries, turnip was the staple crop before its replacement with potato in the 18th century.

England was exposed to new foods ( such as the potato imported from South America ), and developed new tastes during the era.

Some speculate that the dish may have been invented in Spain, the first European country in which the potato appeared via the New World colonies, and assumes the first appearance to have been as an accompaniment to fish dishes in Galicia, from which it spread to the rest of the country and further to the Spanish Netherlands, which became Belgium more than a century later.

Kapodistrias negotiated with the Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire the borders and the degree of independence of the Greek state and signed the peace treaty that ended the War of Independence with the Ottomans ; introduced the phoenix, the first modern Greek currency ; organised local administration ; and, in an effort to raise the living standards of the population, introduced the cultivation of the potato into Greece.

The annual diet of an average global citizen in the first decade of the 21st century included about of potato.

This means that the annual diet of an average global citizen in the first decade of the 21st century included about 33 kg ( or 73 lb ) of potato.

Most potato dishes are served hot, but some are first cooked, then served cold, notably potato salad and potato chips / crisps.

Common dishes are: mashed potatoes, which are first boiled ( usually peeled ), and then mashed with milk or yogurt and butter ; whole baked potatoes ; boiled or steamed potatoes ; French-fried potatoes or chips ; cut into cubes and roasted ; scalloped, diced, or sliced and fried ( home fries ); grated into small thin strips and fried ( hash browns ); grated and formed into dumplings, Rösti or potato pancakes.

In Northern India, alu dum and alu paratha are a favorite part of the diet ; the first is a spicy curry of boiled potato, the second is a type of stuffed chapati.

New England-based Tri-Sum Potato Chips, originally founded in 1908 as the Leominster Potato Chip Company, in Leominster, Massachusetts claim to be America's first potato chip manufacturer.

At first, potato chips were packaged in barrels or tins, which left chips at the bottom stale and crumbled.

Deep-fried chips ( slices or pieces of potato ) as a dish may have first appeared in Britain in about the same period: the Oxford English Dictionary notes as its earliest usage of " chips " in this sense the mention in Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( published in 1859 ): " Husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil ".

De Bary published his first work on fungi in 1861, and then spent more than 15 years studying Peronosporeae, particularly Phytophthora infestans ( formerly Peronospora infestans ) and Cystopus ( Albugo ), parasites of potato.

The first record of the name " sweet potato " is found in the Oxford English Dictionary of 1775.

In harvest time, the first kūmara ( sweet potato ) or the first taro was often presented to the taniwha ( Orbell 1998: 149-150 ).

This is also a reference to the endless fight of Holmes and Moriarty, and probably remarks the way GLaDOS is like a Dr. Watson to Chell when the first is a potato because is helping Chell.

In 1995 Monsanto's potato plants producing Bt toxin were approved for sale by the Environmental Protection Agency, after having approved by the FDA, making it the first pesticide-producing crop to be approved in the United States.

URL: http :// www. british-history. ac. uk / report. aspx? compid = 22605 Date accessed: 14 November 2007 .</ ref > Coincidentally, Cricklewood also became the home for the first Smith's Crisps potato crisp factory which replaced the omnibus depot at Crown Yard.

Posen has a strong Polish background and is home to the Posen Potato Festival, held every year on during the first weekend after Labor Day, with potato pancakes and polka dancing.

The first Spanish speaking people families begin to settle in Metolius in the 1950s drawn by field work hoeing, irrigating and harvesting as well as working in the potato sheds.

The Sweet potato is native to Central America and was domesticated there at least 5, 000 years ago.