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Scientists have finally uncovered the ancient secret behind the potato’s origin—and it involves an unexpected genetic romance ...

About 9 million years ago, a wild interspecies fling between tomato-like plants and potato relatives in South America gave ...

Potatoes might be one of your favorite foods, whether baked, fried, or mashed. But have you ever wondered where they came ...

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Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one ...

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Now, a new analysis has finally unravelled its origins.

Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern-day spud around nine million years ago.