Editing Potato (section)

=== Domestication ===

Wild potato [[species]] occur from the southern United States to southern Chile.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Geographic distribution of wild potato species |last1=Hijmans |first1=R.J. |first2=D.M. |last2=Spooner |journal=[[American Journal of Botany]] |volume=88 |issue=11 |pages=2101–12 |doi=10.2307/3558435 |year=2001 |jstor=3558435 |pmid=21669641}}</ref> The potato was first domesticated in southern [[Peru]] and northwestern [[Bolivia]]<ref name="Spooner 2005 14694–99"/> by pre-Columbian farmers, around [[Lake Titicaca]].<ref name="LostCrops"/> Potatoes were domesticated there about 7,000–10,000 years ago from a species in the ''[[Solanum brevicaule |S. brevicaule]]'' complex.<ref name="Spooner 2005 14694–99">{{cite journal |last1=Spooner |first1=David M. |last2=McLean |first2=Karen |last3=Ramsay |first3=Gavin |last4=Waugh |first4=Robbie |last5=Bryan |first5=Glenn J. |date=29 September 2005 |title=A single domestication for potato based on multilocus amplified fragment length polymorphism genotyping |journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]] |pmid=16203994 |volume=102 |issue=41 |pmc=1253605 |pages=14694–14699 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0507400102 |bibcode=2005PNAS..10214694S |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="LostCrops">{{cite book |author=Office of International Affairs |title=Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation |date=1989 |url=http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=030904264X&page=92 |isbn=978-0-309-04264-2 |page=92 |doi=10.17226/1398}}</ref><ref name="John Michael Francis 2005">{{cite book |author=John Michael Francis |title=Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia |publisher =ABC-CLIO |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMNoS-g1h8cC&pg=PA867 |isbn=978-1-85109-421-9 |page=867}}</ref> 

The earliest archaeologically verified potato tuber remains have been found at the coastal site of [[Ancon (archaeological site) |Ancon]] (central [[Peru]]), dating to 2500 BC.<ref>Martins-Farias 1976; Moseley 1975</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=David R. |last1=Harris |first2=Gordon C. |last2=Hillman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qxghBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA496 |title=Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-317-59829-9 |page=496}}</ref> The most widely cultivated variety, ''Solanum tuberosum tuberosum'', is indigenous to the [[Chiloé Archipelago]], and has been cultivated by the [[Indigenous peoples in Chile |local indigenous people]] since before the [[Conquest of Chile |Spanish conquest]].<ref name="Rodríguez">{{cite journal |last1=Anabalón Rodríguez |first1=Leonardo |last2=Morales Ulloa |first2=Daniza |last3=Solano Solis |first3=Jaime |date=July 2007 |title=Molecular description and similarity relationships among native germplasm potatoes (''Solanum tuberosum'' ssp. ''tuberosum'' L.) using morphological data and AFLP markers |url=https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582007000300011 |journal=Electronic Journal of Biotechnology |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=436–443 |doi=10.2225/vol10-issue3-fulltext-14 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |access-date=6 December 2009 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10925/320}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Using DNA, scientists hunt for the roots of the modern potato |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/814749 |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=EurekAlert! |language=en}}</ref>