Examining Different Potato Varieties Worldwide: A Comparative Analysis

Abstract

The potato is the most important non-cereal food crop in the world. In Albania, there is no official data on the introduction of the potato, but, according to specialists in the field, it began to be cultivated after 1850. Today, in Albania, potato production is estimated at around 245,000 tons per year. Compared to the region, Albania leaves behind Macedonia, Kosovo, and Montenegro. Foreign cultivars are cultivated in Albania; there are no farmer’s cultivars here. The Albanian Genetic Bank has the task of preserving and advising farmers to cultivate the best cultivars that give high yields and quality products for use in the kitchen. This study also serves this purpose, through which 13 potato cultivars were studied, which showed variation for all morphological characteristics and for quantitative characteristics. Perhaps the historical event related to the tomato poisoning of some Italian nobles has influenced the prejudice that the potato is poisonous. A nickname for the fruit was “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick and died after eating tomatoes, but the truth was that wealthy Europeans used tin plates, which had a high lead content. Since tomatoes are high in acidity