New research has revealed an intriguing and unexpected discovery about potatoes. Despite being vastly different from the juicy, red fruits that we know as tomatoes, researchers say that the potato and ...

Starch trapped in ancient tools points to long-term cultivation of the Four Corners potato by Indigenous people of the ...

Tracing the potato’s deep ancestry, researchers have revealed a surprising origin story: modern potatoes emerged from natural interbreeding between tomato relatives and a wild-potato-like species ...

The potato: Mash it, bake it, fry it … No matter how you slice it, the potato is the very manifestation of all that is ordinary. And yet the domesticated potato and all of its wild relatives have long ...

The potato - mash it, bake it, fry it. You would be forgiven for thinking it's kind of ordinary. But the potato's origin story, it's pretty fascinating, and we don't really know all the details yet.

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a... The strange-but-true origin story of the humble potato ...