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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 Hard red winter wheat
item Advancing Technologies for Grain Trait Measurement and Storage Preservation
item Attract-and-kill and Mating Disruption of the Stored Product Quarantine Threat Khapra Beetle
item Characterization and Improvement of Wheat FHB Resistance Using Genomic Tools
item Characterization of Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat and its Relatives
item Comparative Chemosensory Genomics of Stored Product Insects
item Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Impacts on Biocontrol and Parasitoid Diversity in Wheat and Alfalfa
item Determination of Biochemical Functions of Hessian Fly Effectors
item Determining the Host Suitability and If Cross-resistance Exists for Cereal and Grass Crops Infested by the Hedgehog Grain Aphid in the Great Plains
item Develop Functional Markers for Wheat Biotic and Abiotic Stress
item Develop Genetic Resources and Analytic Tools for Improvement of FHB Resistance in Wheat
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 Semiochemical Tools for a New Putative Postharvest Seed Crop, Silphium Integrifolium
item Development of High Extensibility Wheat for Flatbreads and Blending
item Development of New Biotech Traits in Wheat for Resistance against Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus
item Drought Stress Tolerance Trait Discovery in Wheat
item Enhance Barley Breeding and Pest Research Capabilities
item Enhancing Insect Ecosystem Services that Benefit Modern Cropping Systems
item Enriching and Understanding the Wheat Genome by Inducing Secondary Homoeologous Recombination
item Environmental Stress Tolerance in Wheat
item Evaluation of Grain Protectants on Grain Shrink Characteristics During Storage
item Evaluation of Sustainable Packaging Solutions for Humanitarian Aid
item Evaluation of Wheat Rust Resistance in South Texas
item Forecasting, Outbreak Prevention, and Ecology of Grasshoppers and Other Rangeland and Crop Insects in the Great Plains
item Genetic Improvement for Resistance to Aphids and Major Diseases in Wheat, Barley, and Sorghum in the Great Plains
item Genomic Analysis of Pest Resistance Genes in US Winter Wheat
item Genomic Plus Phenomic Modeling of Breeding Populations from Ancient Ancestors of Wheat
item Haplotype-informed Prediction of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in U.S. Wheat Breeding Programs
item Identification, Characterization, and Utilization of Priority Traits for the Genetic Improvement of Winter Wheat and Barley Germplasm Adapted to the Great Plains
item Immunogenomics of Insects
item Impacts of Climate Change on Integrated Pest Management of Stored Product Insects
item Impacts of Single Kernel NIR Sorting on Hard Winter Wheat Quality, Flour Functionality and Applications
item Integrated Research to Enhance Forage and Food Production from Southern Great Plains Agroecosystems
item Introgression and Molecular Mapping of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat and Barley Type of
item Introgression of Aphid Resistance Genes from Ae. Tauschii into Bread Wheat
item Investigating the Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Insect-microbe Interactions and Their Ramifications for Food Quality in the Post-harvest
item Localization, Functions and Interacting Targets of Hessian Fly Effectors in Wheat
item Management Strategies for Invasive Aphid Pests of Cereals
item Maximizing Adoption by Demonstrating the Compatibility of Insecticide Netting with Diverse Pest Management Tactics at Food Facilities
item Measurement and Improvement of Hard Winter Wheat End-Use Quality Traits
item Methods for Evaluation of Whole Wheat Flour
item Mobilizing Genetic Resources and Technologies for Breeding Profitable, Resilient, and Nutritious Hard Winter Wheat
item Mobilizing the Genetic Resources of Ancient Grains
item Modeling for Postharvest Grain Quality and Insect Control
item Modeling Mormon Cricket Centers of Endemism with Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) Analysis of Spatiotemporal Distribution Data
item Modeling Phosphine Gas Movement in Grain Bunkers
item Molecular Network in Wheat - Hessian Fly Interactions
item Monitoring Climatic Changes in Northwest Oklahoma
item New Uses for Low Falling Number Hard Winter Wheat and Mechanism Study
item Next-Generation Approaches for Monitoring and Management of Stored Product Insects
item NIFA CAP for Innovation in Genomic Technology to Accelerate Breeding
item Novel Resistance Phenotyping Strategies for Hessian Fly of Wheat
item Robotic Delivery (SKUNK) for Pest Management in Food Processing Facilities
item Screening for Resistance to Wheat Rusts in Southern Texas
item Sorting of Haploid Maize Kernels for Accelerated Maize Development
item Studies of Genetic Mechanisms of Sorghum Resistance to Aphids
item Tools for High-throughput Rheological Evaluation of Breeding Germplasm
item Validation and Delivery of Sugarcane Aphid + Natural Enemy Threshold Sampling Plans in Grain Sorghum
item Virus-Host-Vector Interactions of Barley/Cereal Yellow Dwarf Viruses
item Wheat Breeding and Variety Development (Wheat Improvement Team)
item Wheat Pathology Research