Lost Crops of the Incas Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989) / Chapter Skim
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Part IV: Vegetables
Part IV: Vegetables
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Vegetables are especially important for providing much-needed vitamins and minerals to malnourished children in particular, and the current lack of them is a serious concern. For example, lack of vitamin A—an abundant ingredient in many colored vegetables is the world's major nutritional deficiency and the leading cause of blindness in children in Africa and elsewhere.
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But although ancient graves have yielded remnants of dozens of different native Andean food crops, nothing indicates that tomatoes were ever cultivated for food in their ancient homeland. No samples or pottery depictions have been found.
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One such collection was made in 1962 when two young botanists, Hugh Iltis and Donald Ugent, were studying the wild potatoes of the dry valleys near Abancay, Peru. Eating lunch on a rocky mountain slope, they picked the fruits from a scraggly wild tomato plant growing nearby.
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· L cheesmanii, from the Galapagos Islands, provides salt tolerance, high soluble solids, and the jointless fruit stalks that help tomatoes break off cleanly during mechanical harvesting.
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