Scientists have traced the potato's origin back nine million years, revealing it arose from a chance hybridization between a ...

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the ...

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An international research team has uncovered that natural interbreeding in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like ...

The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, ...

Tracing the potato’s deep ancestry, researchers have revealed a surprising origin story: modern potatoes emerged from natural interbreeding between tomato relatives and a wild-potato-like species ...

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

Modern potatoes came from an ancient mix of tomato and Etuberosum plants. The mix created tubers, letting potatoes store food ...

What came first, the potato or the tomato? A new genetics study says the answer is that juicy, fragrant tomatoes were the ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...

The evolutionary event led to the formation of the tuber, which is the swollen and edible underground root of certain plants, ...