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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
Animal research, general
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
Biological Cell Systems
Canola
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Coffee
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Dairy cattle, live animal
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Fertilizers
Finfish
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
General Commodity
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Other animals, general
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other swine products
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peanut
Peas (dry)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Potato
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Rice
River basins
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Sugar beet
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Research Projects within Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
item Advancing Technologies for Grain Trait Measurement and Storage Preservation
item Agreement with Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS) to Store PVP Seed Material
item Agronomic and Molecular Responses of Maize and Sunflower to Competition with Cover Crops and Alfalfa
item Attract-and-kill and Mating Disruption of the Stored Product Quarantine Threat Khapra Beetle
item Biology of Weed-Crop Interactions to Improve Weed Management Strategies in Northern Agro-ecosystems
item Climate Adaptation and Sustainability in Switchgrass: Exploring Plant-microbe-soil Interactions Across Continental Scale Environmental Gradients
item Climate-resilient Sustainable Irrigated and Dryland Cropping Systems in the Semi-arid Northern Great Plains
item Collaborative Research with the Center for Plant Conservation to Determine Responses to Long-term Storage Conditions
item Combined Management Tactics for Resilient and Sustainable Crop Production
item Curation and Research to Safeguard and Expand Collections of Plant and Microbial Genetic Resources and Associated Descriptive Information
item Developing a Rapid Response Protocol for Phosphine Resistance Management at Food Facilities by Leveraging Tools at or Close to Market
item Developing Automated Monitoring Solutions for Detection and Identification of Insect Pests of Grain
item Developing Canopy Temperature Based Methodologies to Inform Irrigation Decisions
item Developing Semiochemical Tools for a New Putative Postharvest Seed Crop, Silphium Integrifolium
item Development of Educational Materials for the Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources
item Ecological Genomics in Switchgrass
item Enhancing Cropping System and Grassland Sustainability in the Texas Gulf Coast Region by Managing Systems for Productivity and Resilience
item Enhancing Educational Outcomes for Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Use
item Enhancing Insect Ecosystem Services that Benefit Modern Cropping Systems
item Evaluation of Sustainable Packaging Solutions for Humanitarian Aid
item First Steps to Creating Weed Tolerant Corn
item Immunogenomics of Insects
item Impacts of Climate Change on Integrated Pest Management of Stored Product Insects
item Improving Crop Performance and Precision Irrigation Management in Semi-Arid Regions through Data-Driven Research, AI, and Integrated Models
item Improving Irrigated and Dryland Agriculture Via Xylem, Stomata, and Leaf Traits
item Investigating Inter- and Intra-specific Interference in Sunflower
item Maximizing Adoption by Demonstrating the Compatibility of Insecticide Netting with Diverse Pest Management Tactics at Food Facilities
item Mitigation and Control of Aflatoxin Contamination of Corn
item Modeling for Postharvest Grain Quality and Insect Control
item Next-Generation Approaches for Monitoring and Management of Stored Product Insects
item Novel Approaches for Management of Row Crop Pests and Continued Boll Weevil Eradication
item Nutrient Limitation and Disturbance in C4 Grasslands
item On-farm Preharvest Mitigation and Control of Aflatoxin Contamination of Corn
item Plant Exploration in the Central Highlands and Mountainous Area of Northern Vietnam to Collect Malus doumeri Germplasm
item Plant Genetic Resources for Tropical Crop Collections
item Population Genetics of Asiatic Garden Beetle: Are Great Lakes Populations Infesting Agronomic Crops Unique?
item Remote Sensing to Quantify Benefits of Cropping System Diversification
item Response to Nutrients, Disturbance, Drought, and Management Practice in C4 Grasslands
item RNA Integrity as a Powerful Metric of Aging in Preserved Seed Collections of Wild Rare Plant Species
item Robotic Delivery (SKUNK) for Pest Management in Food Processing Facilities
item Seed Quality and Germination Tests of Seeds Stored at NLGRP
item Sorting of Haploid Maize Kernels for Accelerated Maize Development
item The Chemistry and Effectiveness of Plant Vitrification Solutions for Use in Cryopreservation
item Understanding Freezing Tolerance and Other Agronomically Important Traits in Canola
item Understanding Soil and Environmental Effects on Crop Species and Rangeland Ecosystems Under Water Limitation