[5][6] The final cross was made in 1956,[7] but it took another ten years for the variety to be tested and multiplied before it was recommended by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in 1966.

[11] By convention, the breeder got to choose the second name, with Piper chosen arbitrarily by Howard's son, although earlier, he had proposed calling it Maris Pard.

[17] It is widely used to make chips (French fries)[11] due to it having high dry matter[18] and low reducing sugars.

[23] Maris Piper is one of the most susceptible potato varieties to being eaten by slugs,[24] and also the bacterial disease common scab, which causes corky lesions to form on the skin.

[28] H1 is thought to encode a protein that specifically detects the product of one nematode gene during feeding, a so-called gene-for-gene relationship.