Source: China – South China Morning PostThey could not look less alike in the supermarket aisle, but a Chinese-led research team has uncovered an ancient link that makes a forerunner of the tomato a genetic parent of the potato.
By examining genomes and data sets from cultivated and wild potato species, the scientists traced the tuberous plant’s evolution back about nine million years to a moment when a tomato ancestor created a hybrid with a group of potato-like – but tuberless – plants called etuberosum. They published their…Read More