New shoots grow from a potato tuber kept in the kitchen due to the tuber's natural ability to sprout when conditions are favorable. Potatoes contain stored nutrients that provide energy for the growth of these shoots. Additionally, the presence of light and warmth in the kitchen can trigger the sprouting process, as the tuber attempts to propagate itself. This is a part of the potato's reproductive strategy to produce new plants.
It doesn't - it reproduces via seed and offsets from the potato itself. The eyes are just embryonic shoots.
Because the part that turn into the potato is a structure off the stem of the plant. You can see this for yourself because the "eyes" of the potato tuber are stem side shoots.
A potato is a tuber
A potato is an edible tuber.
tuber
yam, sweet potato
Potato reproduce with the help of eyes on the potato tuber because the seeds of potato are very week. They rarely grow into plants.
Tuber is the modified organ of the plant potato.
a tuber
potato or beet
potato
tuber or eyes