A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, ...

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

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

A genome analysis indicates wild tomatoes and a potato-like plant called Etuberosum hybridized to create the modern potato ...

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

You say potato, I say tomato? It turns out that one helped create the other: Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and ...

That’s it. That’s the news. Genome biologist Sanwen Huang knows a thing or two about potatoes. But his latest potato ...

The origin of potatoes has puzzled scientists for years, but researchers now say they've found an unlikely ancestor: tomatoes ...

Unlocking the mystery of the potato’s origin could lead to the development of more resilient and disease-resistant crops.

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

The potato, it turns out, is not a “purebreed.” It’s the result of an ancient and accidental hybridization that occurred ...

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