An Oregon seed company is offering gardeners potatoes and tomatoes in one plant. The Territorial Seed Company in Cottage Grove calls it “Ketchup `n’ Fries.” The Oregonian reports the plant was ...
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After losing his job as a matatu conductor in Kiambu town due to overindulging in alcohol, Wangoto* became a petty thief to survive. “I was caught red-handed inside a chicken coop in the middle of the ...
An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests. By Alexa Robles-Gil As a foodstuff, the potato can be baked, boiled, mashed, smashed, ...
(NewsNation) — International researchers who studied the prehistoric lineage of the modern potato have reached a surprising conclusion: The first spuds were partly derived from tomatoes 9 million ...
An international research team has uncovered that natural interbreeding in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 9 million years ago gave rise to the ...
The potato: Mash it, bake it, fry it … No matter how you slice it, the potato is the very manifestation of all that is ordinary. And yet the domesticated potato and all of its wild relatives have long ...