{"id":41143,"date":"2025-07-31T19:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/potatoes-from-tomatoes-popular-starchy-vegetable-derived-from-ancient-interbreeding-researchers-say\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:26:58","slug":"potatoes-from-tomatoes-popular-starchy-vegetable-derived-from-ancient-interbreeding-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/potatoes-from-tomatoes-popular-starchy-vegetable-derived-from-ancient-interbreeding-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Potatoes from tomatoes? Popular starchy vegetable derived from ancient interbreeding, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Meet the potato&#8217;s unexpected ancestor: the tomato.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, a fruit. Potatoes and tomatoes don&#8217;t look alike, smell alike or taste alike, but in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(25)00736-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a> published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists said that the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor around 9 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from,&#8221; corresponding author Sanwen Huang of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1092263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The origin of the modern potato has puzzled scientists for years. In terms of appearance, potatoes resemble a species from Chile called Etuberosum, with one crucial difference: Etuberosum don&#8217;t produce the starch-rich tubers. That&#8217;s where the tomato comes in.<\/p>\n<p>While tomatoes don&#8217;t have tubers, the ancient tomato did provide a crucial gene that, when mixed with the genetics of Etuberosum, told the modern potato to form tubers, according to the researchers. The SP6A gene from the tomato parent tells the potato plant to make tubers, while the IT1 gene from Etuberosum assists in controlling the growth of the underground stems that form tubers. Both pieces were needed to create the potato that&#8217;s known and loved today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/31\/a3bf8f49-08ff-4e1b-9ba4-f7cf1ebc3050\/thumbnail\/620x420\/e92f08c346e22c78b5db24be8d02e0e7\/low-res-phenotype-etb-potato-credit-yuxin-jia-and-pei-wang.jpg#\" alt=\"Non-tuber-bearing and tuber-bearing species of the potato plant. \" height=\"420\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/31\/a3bf8f49-08ff-4e1b-9ba4-f7cf1ebc3050\/thumbnail\/620x420\/e92f08c346e22c78b5db24be8d02e0e7\/low-res-phenotype-etb-potato-credit-yuxin-jia-and-pei-wang.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/31\/a3bf8f49-08ff-4e1b-9ba4-f7cf1ebc3050\/thumbnail\/1240x840\/b2c3c5f8ae3dd3ec3e8653c269d24ca2\/low-res-phenotype-etb-potato-credit-yuxin-jia-and-pei-wang.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Non-tuber-bearing and tuber-bearing species of the potato plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Yuxin Jia and Pei Wang<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings show how a hybridization event between species can spark the evolution of new traits, allowing even more species to emerge,&#8221; corresponding author Sanwen Huang of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The research team analyzed 450 genomes from cultivated potatoes and 56 of the wild potato species during the study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wild potatoes are very difficult to sample, so this dataset represents the most comprehensive collection of wild potato genomic data ever analyzed,&#8221; said the paper&#8217;s first author Zhiyang Zhang of the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the ancestry, there&#8217;s also a linguistic similarity, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MerriamWebster\/status\/1928190882072654285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Merriam-Webster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The word &#8216;tomato&#8217; started out as &#8216;tomate&#8217; and came from the Nahuatl word &#8216;tomatl.&#8217; Since the potato had been introduced to the English some decades earlier, the word evolved to mimic the form of &#8216;potato&#8217; \u2014 hence the spelling &#8216;tomato,'&#8221; the dictionary notes.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/aliza-chasan\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Aliza  Chasan<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; and CBSNews.com. 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