For ages, people have used natural foods for weight management. Modern nutrition now recognises these ancient practices.

Scientists reveal that potatoes were born from tomatoes through natural hybridisation 9 million years ago in South America, ...

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

Just when I thought nothing could surprise me anymore, along came a new study from the journal Cell suggesting the humble ...

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 ...

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

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

Potatoes represent more than the product of an improbable union; they mark a radical feat of evolution. Neither of the first ...

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 ...

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

Researchers conduct ‘DNA paternity test’ on potato varieties in ‘pioneering’ study that sheds light on ancient origins of the ...