Potatoes from tomatoes? Popular starchy vegetable derived from ancient interbreeding, researchers say

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Potatoes From Tomatoes? Popular Starchy Vegetable Derived From Ancient Interbreeding, Researchers Say

By CBS News

Meet the potato's unexpected ancestor: the tomato. That's right, a fruit. Potatoes and tomatoes don't look alike, smell alike or taste alike, but in a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists said that the potato evolved from a tomato ...Read more