Study: Sweet potatoes were present when there were no people

Researchers have found that sweet potatoes were present when there were no people.

This type of vegetables had traveled from the American continent to Polynesia on its own.

This may be because of winds, birds, water, or other natural forces.

Earlier, scientists thought it was the people who brought the plant to Polynesia.

Scientists have discovered that the sweet potato was present at a time when there were no people and that the potato had traveled to the region of Polynesia from America on its own without human intervention.

The discovery is the opposite of what was thought of in the previous theory of the connections of the American continent and Polynesia prior to the time of Columbus.

Professor Robert Scotland of Oxford, who has conducted the new study, says that his team has discovered that sweet potatoes are earlier than mankind.

The DNA study found that sweet potato belongs to the period more than 800 thousand years ago.

Researchers had earlier sought answers to how American - born potato had spread to Polynesia when the first Europeans arrived there.

Earlier research suggested that the existence of the sweet potato in Polynesia was evidence of pre - European contacts between the inhabitants of Polynesia and America.

The philogenetic applications of DNA sequences drew conflicted family trees, but researchers said conflicting evidence is due to the dual role of Ipomoea trifida. The Sweet Cat rose from I. Trifides and later hybridized with I. The challenge to produce another independent line of sweet potato,” says in the report.