People only eat 1 when the chips are brown

AgriLife research helping potato chip industry with disease Dr. Don Henne, Texas AgriLife Research assistant research scientist, looks for potato psyllids, the insect that carries the bacteria which infects the plants on a glue trap in his plot... AMARILLO – Dr. Don Henne isn't wasting his degree when he's standing by the deep fryer waiting for potato slices to turn brown. He's conducting research that will help the potato industry and consumers. Henne, an assistant research scientist in the Texas AgriLife Research plant pathology program in Amarillo, is one of many who are trying to find answers about zebra chip. Zebra chip is the latest disease to plague the potato industry, especially those in the chipping business. Dr. Charlie Rush, AgriLife Research plant pathologist and leader of the program, began working on the... [read full story]