Ketchup and fries make a tasty pair. But the connection between tomatoes and potatoes may go beyond making a good meal: Potatoes today might have evolved with help from an early tomato, according to a ...

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 ...

What you throw away in the kitchen could matter more in the garden. This everyday leftover plays a surprising role in soil ...

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 ...

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