An international research team has uncovered that natural interbreeding in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 9 million years ago gave rise to the ...

Most plants can reproduce both sexually (through flowers and seed) but many important crops, such as potatoes and strawberry, are propagated vegetatively, e.g. through tubers or shoots. A new study of ...

About 9 million years ago, a wild interspecies fling between tomato-like plants and potato relatives in South America gave rise to one of the world’s most important crops: the potato. Scientists have ...

An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests. By Alexa Robles-Gil As a foodstuff, the potato can be baked, boiled, mashed, smashed, ...

New research traces the genetic ancestry of the popular root vegetable to a brief plant romance millions of years ago. A new study shows that the tomato gave rise to the modern clade of potatoes by ...