is there new methods for growing potatos?
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Yeah you can grow them in the ground now I have heard, how cool is that
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are you talking about "transgenic crops"  or traditional breeding methods?\n\nGenetically Modified (GM) crops are typically transgenic.  This process involves taking genes from one species—an animal, plant, bacterium, or virus—and inserting them into another species, such as an agricultural crop.  \n\nTo find out more, go to the website below:
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i dont know but could you pass the potato's...please
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My link of the day on my blog. All about plants and herbs. \n\nhttp://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/med-aro/
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From a potato, you extend a ground and active wire to a low-watt (4-6) light bulb.  It will light the bulb.
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Yes, there are a few examples of particularly strong potatoes that can, under optimal conditions, grow in sand. Though, this is rare at best. Sand provides little nutrients and is terrible at holding water.
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Do you mean air and plant production?\n\nthat would be tricky but do think a small base is feasible.
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many plants tend to be healtheir and grow faster and produce more using hydroponic means.\n\nHowever not all plants can be adapted to such means.\n\nSee the sources below for more information.
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Try illuminating a growing plant (¿beans?) with different wavelengths (a simple set of filters -yellow, red and blue- will do) in black boxes. \nMeasure the length of the shoots under different light colors with time. \nWhat you should see: Blue should give the highest growth rate, due to the fact that the maximum absorption of the plants pigments falls on those wavelengths.
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Cuttings - take a piece of the plant, usually stem, and plant it. With luck it will root & grow into a clone of the original plant. (You can also take leaf & root cuttings.)\n\nMicropopagation -take just a few plant cells. Put into a special culture medium & treat with plant hormones. The cells divide and form a callus. Alter the ratio of hormones and the callus grows roots. Alter them again and it then grows leaves. You then have a very small plant.
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There is no starch digesting enzyme in a potato.  A potato is a bulb used to reproduce the potato plant.  The starch is used to provide nutrients for the growing plant.  Why would this breakdown the potato before the plants grow?\n\nThere is a starch digesting enzyme in our saliva.  The enzyme in our saliva is called Amylase.
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Potato can and does grow from seeds.\n\nCommercially cultivated potato for market is grown from the 'eyes' or 'bud' because of the following reasons...\n\n1) It is a much quicker method to cultivate.\n\n2) The quality is constant and as expected, it does not change.\n\nIn the experimental institutions , on the other hand, potato is grown from the seeds . Hybrids are created to bring the desired qualities of two different potatoes together and their seeds are collected to be given to the farmers.\n\nIn short, all the methods are adopted depending upon the need of the hour.
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I don't have a very specific answer for you, but maybe this will help.  PDA is generally used for growing fungi, and is not an especially good medium for bacteria\n\n"Potato dextrose broth (abbreviated as "PDB") and potato dextrose agar (abbreviated as "PDA") are common microbiological media for culturing both yeast and mold, but usually not bacteria."\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_dextrose_broth\n\n... though I did read this:\n\n"Potato dextrose agar is the most widely used medium for growing fungi and bacteria which attack living plants or decay dead plant matter."\nhttp://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/b029.htm\n\nHopefully that will narrow down your search!
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yes you can use that method, however, you can't if you don't have a red rose already.  You must take a tissue (perferably the auxillary node) of a red rose plant and harvest that to grow the new red rose.
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Actually, potatoes are not a major crop in Ireland. There are hardly any potatoes grown in Ireland these days, due mainly to the cheap price of imports from elsewhere. The major crops are wheat, oats and barley, with some maize and rapeseed in places. Sugarbeet used to be a major crop but with the end of the sugar industry here it is no more.
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Probably a contribution of two things:\n\n1. oxidisation of the oxygen in the air\n2. the potato absorbing water from the air.
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take your soil sample and suspend some in a little sterile water; plate out the suspension on agar plates in the usual way and isolate the colonies as a way to do a preliminary sort. Then maybe culture them ... Then do your in-depth analysis.