Christopher Clark, Villordon, Arthur O., Smith, Tara, Labonte, Don R.
LSU AgCenter
The orange, moist-fleshed sweet potato varieties developed at the LSU AgCenter have become the standard American perception of a sweet potato. Early on it was realized that mutations could occur in orange-fleshed sweet potatoes that resulted in roots that were off-type and light yellow in color. In the late 1940s, LSU pioneered the production of foundation sweet potato seed (storage roots) by developing a method to minimize such mutations.