Crop geneticist Charles R. Brown has spent a decade working to make a better potato. In the beginning, he focused on beefing up the familiar white-fleshed tuber. His strategy was to recapture healthful traits from old-style spuds from the plant’s native range in South America. He examined many yellow, red, and purple potatoes, none of which grows well in a U.S.
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