General Knowledge - Biology - Discussion

Potato is a root in it storage of food has taken place.

Potato is a root so I m unable to understand how the answer is stam. Please specify.

Potatoes are occasionally referred to as a root crop because we eat a part of the plant that grows underground. However, the part of the potato that is eaten is not a root, it is actually a specialized stem called a tuber.

Whereas the sweet potato is different. It is modified root.

Potato has nodes and internodes which is a characteristic of stem so the answer is correct.

Yes, potatoes though they stored food it has nodes and inter nodes which are the characteristics of stems so potato included under stem some stems also store food e. G ginger also stem but it store food.

No the answer is correct. Potatoes are stems as they even have nodes and Internodes. And foolishly even grows underground.

But I think potato is a root so I am unable to understand why the answer is root please specify.

It is a stem because characteristic of stem such as bud node are seen in potato. It store a food like sugar cane.

Potato is an example for stem tuber. It is a kind of stem modification in which lower part of the stem grows into soil. The apices of these underground branches stores food materials and becomes tuberous.

Potato are stem tubers. Enlarged stolons thicken to develop into storage organs. The tuber has all the parts of a normal stem, including nodes and inter nodes. The nodes are the eyes and each has a leaf scar. The nodes or eyes are arranged around the tuber in a spiral fashion beginning on the end opposite the attachment point to the stolon.

The terminal bud is produced at the farthest point away from the stolon attachment and tubers thus show the same apical dominance as a normal stem. Internally, a tuber is filled with starch stored in enlarged parenchyma like cells. The inside of a tuber has the typical cell structures of any stem, including a pith, vascular zones, and a cortex.