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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.

Clicking on a subject of investigation will list the research projects within that  subject of investigation.
Subjects of Investigation
Almond
Apple
Barley
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Carrot
Citrus, general/other
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Dairy cattle, live animal
Deciduous and small fruits, general/other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Durum wheat
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Eggs
Fiber crops, general/other
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grapes, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Guayule
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Honey bees
Lesquerella
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Milk
Mushrooms and other edible fungi
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Pasture
Peanut
Potato
Poultry meat
Raisin grapes
Rangelands, other
Raspberry
Rice
Rubber, gum, and resin plants, other
Rye
Salmon
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soybean
Strawberry
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Tomato
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Vegetables, general/other
Walnut
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Weeds
Wetland and riparian systems
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Wine grapes
Research Projects within Weeds
item Advancing Biological Control of Cheatgrass
item Areawide Control of Spotted Wing Drosophila Using Parasitoids
item Areawide Management of Spotted Wing Drosophila in California
item Areawide Management of Spotted Wing Drosophila in California
item Biological Control of Invasive Pests in Agroecosystems and Wetland, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems in the Far Western U.S.
item Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Western USA
item Biological Control of Invasive Weeds Degrading Public Lands
item Collection, Evaluation and Importation of Candidate Biological Control Agents for Ice Plants Invasive on San Nicolas Island and San Clemente Island
item Collection, Field Study and Shipment of a Candidate Biological Control Agent of Slenderleaf Ice Plant from the Western Mediterranean Basin
item Collection, Study and Shipment of Candidate Biological Control Agents of Ice Plants in South Africa
item Development of Cheatgrass Biological Control with Microbes and Integrated Cape-ivy Control to Reduce Populations of Non-native, Invasive Weeds
item Discovery and Pre-Release Evaluation of Weed Biocontrol Agents
item Discovery and Pre-Release Evaluation of Weed Biocontrol Agents
item Discovery, Identification, Collection and Shipment of Biological Control Agents of Slenderleaf Ice Plant in South Africa
item Establishment and Evaluation of Ganaspis brasiliensis to Suppress Spotted Wing Drosophila
item Foreign Explorations for Natural Enemies of Invasive Weeds
item Genetics, Ecology, and Biological Control of Invasive Annual Grasses - Albany
item Integrated Weed Management and Restoration Strategies to Protect Water Resources and Aquatic and Wetland Ecosystems of the Far Western U.S.
item Invasive Plant Management Strategies for Endangered Plant Recovery and Tidal Wetland Restoration under Changing Environmental Conditions
item Plant-Soil Feedbacks Driving Cheatgrass Invasion
item Prioritizing Weed Targets for Biological Control: Testing a South African Model for Western USA
item Proactive Classical Biological Control of South American Tomato Pinworm in California
item Proactive Classical Biological Control of South American Tomato Pinworm in California
item Proactive Classical Biological Control of Tuta absoluta in California
item Proactive Classical Biological Control of Tuta absoluta in California
item Quantifying Factors that Contribute to the Enemy Release in Weed of Urban Versus Natural Ecosystems
item Reducing the Impact of Invasive Weeds in Pacific West Estuaries through Plant Community Restoration
item Synergies in Aquatic Plant Biological Control: Translating Research Between the Southern and Western USA