Potatoes as a staple food, nutritious taste is very important.

In 2015, the state officially launched the potato staple food product and industrial development strategy, which is of great significance to ensuring national food security, improving people's dietary structure and promoting social and economic development. Under the background of small yield increase space of rice, wheat and corn, increased ecological environment pressure and food security risks, it is a very important strategic choice for the state to start potato staple food products and industrial development. This strategic choice puts forward higher requirements for potato breeders.

By 2015, more than 400 new potato varieties have been bred in China, including fresh potato edible type, starch processing type, fried food, whole flour processing type, characteristic type and other varieties, which have been greatly improved in yield, quality, disease resistance and appearance traits, but there are less than 10 special varieties for processing, and there are almost no breeding varieties aiming at nutritional quality and taste flavor. After screening, some of the bred varieties will be used for the development of different staple food products, but there is still a long way to go to meet the overall needs of staple food products.

Potato breeding in China has always taken high yield, disease resistance and stress resistance as the main breeding objectives. The breeding variety type is relatively single, and there is a serious lack of special varieties suitable for staple food processing. Potato as staple food requires adjustment of breeding indexes. In addition to yield, disease resistance and appearance traits, nutrition quality, taste flavor, specificity and special requirements derived from special products must be paid attention to. The biggest advantage of potato as a staple food is its rich and balanced nutrition, so it is very important to breed more nutritious and balanced varieties. For potatoes that are directly steamed, boiled, baked and cooked, the taste and flavor are also a very important index. The main reason why "Huasong Potato" can become a domestic high-end potato brand in a short period of time is that "Huasong Potato" focuses on nutritional quality and taste flavor as the main breeding target, all Huasong potato varieties are very delicious potatoes. Huasong No.7 is a potato with yellow skin and yellow meat, which is rated as the best potato by the public; Huasong 88 is a red-skinned red-meat potato with very good taste, beautiful potato shape and antioxidant ability, which has shorter maturity period and higher yield than the previous red varieties; Huasong 66 is a black-skinned black-meat potato with very good taste, beautiful potato shape and antioxidant ability, which exceeds the black beauty and black diamond in the previous market. Huasong series potatoes are quickly accepted and sought after by people because of their beautiful potato shape, rich nutrition and excellent taste.

The implementation of potato staple food products and industrial development strategy is not only a challenge but also an opportunity for breeders. With the further increase of investment in potato breeding research by the state and enterprises, it is believed that more excellent new potato varieties will be selected for six consecutive years.