Cold-induced sweetening (CIS) is a postharvest phenomenon whereby potato tubers accumulate reducing sugars during storage at low temperatures. This process compromises the quality of processed ...

Refrigerators are the main tool of modern food storage and have become almost the sole reference for the freshness and safety ...

Tracing the potato’s deep ancestry, researchers have revealed a surprising origin story: modern potatoes emerged from natural interbreeding between tomato relatives and a wild-potato-like species ...

They’re one of the UK’s most loved staples, providing around half of our carbohydrate intake as a nation and supporting over 20,000 farm, transport and manufacturing jobs. Now, new research is ...

An international research team has uncovered that natural interbreeding in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 9 million years ago gave rise to the ...

New research shows potatoes evolved from tomatoes through ancient plant mixing that created underground tubers.