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What is the Eye of a Potato?


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Potato:

  1. Potato is called a tuber or stem tuber.
  2. The morphology of the tuber is cream in color, oval, or round in shape.
  3. Tubers function as a storage form of energy, mainly in the form of carbohydrates.

Eye of the potato:

  1. Each tuber has many notches or axillary buds or small sprouts called Eye.
  2. From these buds, a new potato plant can grow in favorable conditions.


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