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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Zealand-based couple who believed they had found the world's largest potato have had their chances of breaking a world ...

The humble modern-day potato, first domesticated about 10,000 years ago, got its start in the Andes mountains before becoming a key crop the world depends on. But because plants don’t preserve well in ...

Dug may not be the world’s largest potato, but it’s still pretty spudtacular. When New Zealand couple Colin and Donna Craig-Brown first discovered the gigantic vegetable in their garden last August, ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before spreading globally from the 16th century. But despite its importance ...

They could not look less alike in the supermarket aisle, but a Chinese-led research team has uncovered an ancient link that makes a forerunner of the tomato a genetic parent of the potato. By ...