A New Zealand-based couple who believed they had found the world’s largest potato have had their chances of breaking a world record mashed after a DNA test revealed it is, in fact, a tuber. Colin and ...

Today's lesson: We eat potatoes these days like we breathe air, almost without notice. From chips to fries to mashed, the potato has invaded our diet. What exactly is a potato? Potatoes, the largest ...

What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of humanity’s most vital crops. In a prehistoric twist of fate, a natural ...

Guinness World Records determined that Colin and Donna Craig-Brown's 17 lb potato is not really a potato, but a tuber of a gourd A couple in New Zealand thought they had found the world's largest ...

Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest, ...

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