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Research Projects Subjects of Investigation at this Location

Each ARS research project has related subjects of investigation.  Listed below are the subjects of investigation currently conducted at this location.

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Subjects of Investigation

Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Blueberry
Carrot
Cheese
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Clams and mussels
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cranberry
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Cut flowers, foliage, and greens
Dairy cattle, live animal
Date
Deciduous and small fruits, general/other
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Durum wheat
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Eggplant
Eggs
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Filbert
Finfish
Flax
Florist crops, other
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Fungi (includes yeast)
General Commodity
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grapefruit
Grapes, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Guayule
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Honey bees
Hops
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Kiwi
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Marketing, processing, and supply firms other than cooperatives
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Milk
Mint
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Mountain grasslands, meadow, and alpine
Mushrooms and other edible fungi
Nematodes
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Onion, garlic, leek, shallot
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Papaya
Parks and urban green space
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pear
Peas (dry)
Peas (fresh, fresh-processed)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Pineapple
Pinyon-juniper
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Raisin grapes
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Raspberry
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research equipment and methods, general/other
Rice
Rubber, gum, and resin plants, other
Rye
Salmon
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sensory evaluation/analysis methods (human senses)
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep, live animal
Shellfish
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Structures, facilities, and equipment, general/other
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Sweet potato
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
Taro
The farm as an enterprise
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Trout
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Walnut
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wetland and riparian systems
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Wine grapes
Wood and wood products
Research Projects within Ornamental trees and shrubs
item Biosurveillance of Small Fruit and Horticultural Crops Using Aerial Sampling and Metagenomic Approaches
item Communication Development for the Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative
item Crop Rotation and Development of Resistance for Control of Globodera pallida
item Detection of Phytophthora Infections in West Coast Nurseries
item Develop Monitoring Tools Such As Identifying Pheromones for Western Flower Thrips and Grey Garden Slug
item Disease Management in Small Fruit and Nursery Crops Based on Knowledge of Pathogen Diversity, Biology, and Environmental Effects
item Identification of Biological Targets and Application to Existing and Invasive Pests
item Identification of the Physiological Mechanism of Pheromone Biosynthesis in Thrips and Development of Biological Control Methods
item Identification of the Physiological Mechanisms of Pheromone Biosynthesis in Thrips and Development of Biological Control Methods for Pest Thrips
item Identifying Huckleberry Pollinators and the Impact of Soil Amendment Treatments
item Impedance Flow Cytometry to Characterize Pollen
item Improved Pathogen detection and the Management of Bulb and Nursery Diseases
item Improving Plant Biosecurity Through Genomic Approaches for Emerging Plant Pathogens
item Improving Plant Health in Nursery Production Through Genomic Approaches
item Increase the Profitability of U.S. Flowering Crops by Increasing Plant Health
item Influence of Pathogen Genotypes and Environment on Boxwood Blight
item Knowledge Based Tools for Exotic and Emerging Diseases of Small Fruit and Nursery Crops
item Managing Phytophthora ramorum in the Pacific Northwest
item Minor Use Pesticide Testing on Floral and Nursery Crops
item Monitoring Botrytis Fungicide Resistance on Blueberries in Washington and Oregon
item Monitoring of Pathogens of Floricultural Crops Pre- and Post-harvest Using Metagenomic Diagnostics
item National Clean Plant Network
item Novel Biologically-Based Control Method for Invasive Insect Pests
item Optimizing Mineral Nutrition in Container-Grown Crops in Soilless Substrates
item Pest Management for Spotted Wing-Drosophila - Area Wise Pest Managament
item Phytophthora ramorum Genomics, Monitoring and Management
item Plant-Parasitic Nematodes of the Pacific Northwest Nursery Industry
item Protecting the Ornamental Horticulture Industry from Species of Phytophthora
item Pulse Electricity: A Non-Chemical Approach for the Management of Nematodes, Pathogens, and Weeds in Nurseries
item Receptor Inference: A Novel IPM Technology for Managing Key Insect Pests of Vegetables in California (Corvallis)
item Sustainable Management of Arthropod Pests in Horticultural Crops
item Sustainable, Climate-Smart Solutions for Profitable Production of Small Fruit and Nursery Crops
item Testing Sterile Males for Controlling Spotted-wing Drosophila
item Whole Genome Sequencing for Epidemiology, Population Structure, and Fungicide Resistance of Botrytis spp. in the Pacific Northwest