Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tomatoes and potato-like plants called Etuberosums share a common ancestor from 14 million years ago. “Our findings show how a ...

Americans love potatoes. And while we love our tater tots, our hash browns, and not-so-French french fries, the delicious vegetable's origins had been enshrouded in mystery – until now. "We've finally ...

Millions of years ago, an ancient tomato had a fling with another species in the Andes—and so was born the plant that gave rise to the spuds we love to eat today. The origin of the potato has long ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before spreading globally from the 16th century. But despite its importance ...

They’re one of the world’s most important food crops and delicious roasted, mashed or fried, but the exact genetic origins of the humble potato have long been something of a mystery to scientists. Now ...

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 ...

Wild tomatoes could help researchers design potatoes resistant to the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine and still threatens potato crops around the globe, said a Colorado State University ...