Potato chips are America's classic snack -- crunchy, salty, greasy and tasting of potato or flavored with sour cream, vinegar, BBQ, maple bacon or Cajun dill. And every March 14, chip lovers across the country can celebrate them on National Potato Chip Day.
Breed better potato for chip
Every year scientists in the USDA Agricultural Research Service potato-breeding program make thousands of chipping-potato crosses with an eye to improving not only disease and pest resistance but also achieving perfect potato chip color and proper sugar levels, good storage ability and a whole host of superior agronomic traits such as yield, time to harvest and tuber size.
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