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 ...

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 ...

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

What came first, the potato or the tomato? A new genetics study says the answer is that juicy, fragrant tomatoes were the ...

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

Eyewitness drone footage showed firefighters spraying water at Nebraska's Horizon Biofuels plant after an explosion where two ...

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to upgrade plant immune systems, potentially revolutionising how agricultural ...