Scientists just solved the 9-million-year mystery of where potatoes came from

ScienceDaily
Aug 1, 2025, 11:05 am70 pts
About 9 million years ago, a wild interspecies fling between tomato-like plants and potato relatives in South America gave rise to one of the world’s most important crops: the potato. Scientists have now traced its roots to a rare natural hybridization that created the tuber, a storage organ that allowed the…

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