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We finally solved the mystery of how potatoes evolved That is the startling finding of a new study that has found that potatoes are the result of an ancient hybridisation event We’ve got an ancient hybridisation event in the foothills of the Andes to thank for the humble spud That is the remarkable new finding from a team of researchers who have finally figured out the origin of the potato
Potato origins mystery solved after 9 million years - earth. com To investigate, the researchers sequenced 450 cultivated potato genomes and 56 wild relatives They discovered that all potatoes carry a stable genetic blend from both Etuberosum and tomato-like ancestors The two lineages diverged around 14 million years ago, yet still interbred after 5 million years of separation
You Say Potato, Evolution Says Tomato - Scientific American Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born And now new research shows this pivotal event—and the mashed, baked
Potatoes ancient origins revealed through hybridization 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
Surprising Study Finds Potatoes Evolved From Tomato Ancestor 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 million years ago, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Cell
What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato. The researchers found that the modern spud had a mixed ancestry, which arose from a hybrid tomato and Etuberosum lineages eight million to nine million years ago and led to the origin of tubers