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| C1.1. An ancient pottery vessel from South America depicting the pattern of a potato tuber. |
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C1.2. A woman sowing potatoes in the Mantaro Valley of the Andes Mountains. |
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| C1.3. The logogram of the International Potato Center (Centro International de la Papa [CIP]) in Lima, Peru. The diagram is from fourth-century Nazca culture and depicts harvested potato plants: one (in the figure’s right hand), a healthy plant and the other, diseased. This figure is one of many found in art forms and indicates the importance and high regard that ancient Peruvian cultures had for the potato. |
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C1.4. “After the Eviction.” Homeless families had to find shelter in the countryside. Printed in the Illustrated London News, December 16, 1848.
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C1.5. Sir Robert Peel, prime minister of the United Kingdom during the Irish potato famine. |
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C1.6. Examples of the variety of potato tubers available in the center of origin of the species in the highlands of the Andes Mountains. |
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| C1.7. Late blight and sporulation of Phytophthora infestans on potato leaves. |
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C1.8. Potato plants with late blight (foreground) and plants treated with fungicide (background). |
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C1.9. Potato plants with late blight (foreground) and plants treated with fungicide (background)
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C1.10. Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Quebec, Canada. The 46-foot Celtic cross on the island’s highest point was installed by the Ancient Order of Hibernians in 1909 in memory of the Irish who died at the quarantine station. |
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| C1.11. Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Quebec, Canada. Many of the Irish who escaped the potato famine but died of typhus or cholera at the quarantine station are buried in mass graves on Grosse Île. |
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Disease cycle of late blight of potato and tomato.
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