The science reveals surprising origin of the potato

There are more than a hundred ways for Prepare a potatoThe thousands of stories started with a vodka shot distilled by this tuber. For centuries, the potato was instrumental in food growing population of the world. According to one StudyThe intruding of the potato by Americians counted about a quarter of the popular in the old world between the fourteenth between the world is the 1900 and 1900 and 1900.

Now, the science reveals the open police: has an unusual hybridation of an ancient and an election of the evolution of the world and explain a tuber has become a third of the global diet of the global diet.

The researchers in the Chinese academia of agricultural sciences have congratulate the most extensive genomic analysis on the date on domesticated potato. They learned long varieties long with 44 savage species, which leading genetic sequence. Results have revealed a stable mixture of genetic material between Patato (the traditional potato) and an ancestor of Lycopersicum solanum (the tomato).

Search suggests that potatoes as we know them today is caught by a hybridization process between an old tomato plant and other tomato SolanumSpecies -related from family and Liberosum that, until then has not produced tubers. Results have been published in the newspaper Cell. I am

Both the potato and tomato part a common ancestor who alive than 13 million years ago. Four million years later, his descendants be reflected successfully. From this union emerge a new plant with the ability to form TUBER: Structure under the energy in carbohydrate and allow reproduction or polynication. This biologized innovation eases the expanse of the earliest potato in regions with different climates, from hot to freedier environments.

The study also identified the genetic details. The Great of Sporn, considered the “Swwch” that determines whether a plant will develop tubers, it comes from tomato. Due, the is that regulaturing the growth of the meters who form the mergible Tuber, it comes from the plant family.

Considering the hybridation’s timing and geology of the species, the researchers proposed an assumptions with the origin of the potato. During the miocueno, between 10 and 6 million years of the andts, drive by the rape of the tectonic, generate new constraints. Scientists believe that geological plants of forceful plants to fit and expand, with two of them lie together Patatowhich millions after they end up accompanying your burger in form of chips.

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