Meet the unexpected ancestor of potatoes: tomatoes.
This is correct, a fruit. Potatoes and tomatoes do not look the same, the same smell or taste is the same, but in one Study Published on Thursday in the Journal Sale, scientists said that the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor about 9 million years ago.
“We have finally solved the mystery of potato,” said Sanven Huang, a compatible writer of the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences. News release,
The origin of modern potatoes has surprised scientists over the years. In terms of appearance, potatoes resemble a species from Chile, called Atubarosam, with a significant difference: Atubarosom does not produce starch-rich tubers. This is where tomato comes here.
While tomatoes do not have tubers, the ancient tomatoes provided an important gene, when mixed with the genetics of Itubrosam, according to researchers, described modern potatoes to make tubers. Tomato’s parents asks the sp6A genes to make the genna plant tuber, while the IT1 genes from Etubberosum help in controlling the development of underground stems that make up tubers. Both pieces were required to make known and loving potatoes today.
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“Our findings suggest how the occurrence of a hybrid between the species can increase the development of new symptoms, which can emerge more species,” Huang said.
The research team analyzed 450 genomes from cultivated potatoes and 56 wild potato species during the study.
“It is very difficult to sample wild potatoes, so this dataset represents the most widespread collection of wild potato genomic data,” said, “said Ziang Zhang of the Agricultural Genomics Institute in Shenzhen”.
Outside the lineage, there is also a linguistic equality, according to Marium-wheezer,
The word “tomato ‘started as’ tomat’ and came from the word ‘Tomal’. Since the potato was introduced in English a few decades ago, the word was developed to mimic the form of ‘potato’ – so spelling ‘tomatoes,’ dictionary notes.
