The modern-day potato evolved from the hybridization of the ancestors of tomato plants, and another potato-like plant, in South America, researchers say.

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 ...

Modern potatoes came from an ancient mix of tomato and Etuberosum plants. The mix created tubers, letting potatoes store food ...

Hybrid speciation also can occur through homoploid hybrid speciation, or no change in chromosome number. This happens when hybrid species have evolved to eventually be reproductively isolated from ...

Researchers conduct ‘DNA paternity test’ on potato varieties in ‘pioneering’ study that sheds light on ancient origins of the ...

Now, researchers say the modern-day potato evolved from hybridization of the ancestors of tomato plants and another ...