{"id":173739,"date":"2025-09-05T19:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=173739"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:16:23","slug":"mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=173739","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of the potato&#8217;s origins solved by genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with a plant called Etuberosum, and this reshuffling of genes gave rise to the potato&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2490403-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics.jpg",1350,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics.jpg",1350,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics.jpg",1350,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173739-mystery-of-the-potatos-origins-solved-by-genetics-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}