Food staples are crucial foods that often make up the majority of a population's diet. These can include foods like rice, ...

A new study finds the potato evolved from a wild tomato hybrid 9 million years ago, revealing tuber origins and new potential ...

Scientists have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled researchers for years: where did the modern-day potato come from? A ...

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

International scientists solved the mystery of potato origins. Research shows modern potatoes came from a natural mix of ...

A new analysis of 450 genomes from cultivated potatoes and 56 genomes of wild potato species has revealed that the potato lineage originated through natural interbreeding between a wild tomato plant ...

A team of evolutionary biologists and genomic scientists has traced the origins of the potato to a chance encounter millions ...

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

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

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 ...