What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of ...

Since taking over her late husband’s farm three years ago, Franelyn Rossouw has been simplifying her approach to potato ...

BEIJING -- A surprising discovery by scientists has revealed that an ancient genetic marriage roughly 9 million years ago gave rise to what is now the world's third-largest staple crop: the potato.

You say potato, I say tomato? Turns out one helped create the other: Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern day spud around nine ...

The evolutionary event led to the formation of the tuber, which is the swollen and edible underground root of certain plants, such as potatoes and yams. To reach these conclusions, Chinese researchers ...

The evolution of that tuber has been a mystery: the form of the modern potato plant most closely resembles that of three ...

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

Potatoes are not the only crop that probably needs harvesting this time of year. Kohlrabi is supposed to be harvested when it ...

Researchers say they have finally uncovered the mysterious origins of one of our favorite carbs: the humble potato.

Today's potato evolved from tomatoes 9 million years ago, according to new research. Natural "interbreeding" in the wild ...

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

The starchy vegetable emerged 9 million years ago in the forming Andes mountains — a result of natural interbreeding between an ancient tomato plant and potato-like species that lacked the engorged ...