The potato is the third most important staple crop on Earth. Together with wheat, rice, and maize, i...
SCIENCE
July 01, 2026
The modern potato traces back to an ancient chance encounter between a wild tomato and a small tuberless plant approximately nine million years ago in South America, in a hybrid event that produced the first underground storage organ neither parent could
The potato is the third most important staple crop on Earth. Together with wheat, rice, and maize, it provides approximately 80 per cent of all the calories...
The potato is the third most important staple crop on Earth. Together with wheat, rice, and maize, it provides approximately 80 per cent of all the calories...
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