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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
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 white wheat
item Advancing Technologies for Grain Trait Measurement and Storage Preservation
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 Determination of Biochemical Functions of Hessian Fly Effectors
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 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 Enriching and Understanding the Wheat Genome by Inducing Secondary Homoeologous Recombination
item Environmental Stress Tolerance in Wheat
item Evaluation of Wheat Rust Resistance in South Texas
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 Impacts of Single Kernel NIR Sorting on Hard Winter Wheat Quality, Flour Functionality and Applications
item Introgression and Molecular Mapping of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat and Barley Type of
item Localization, Functions and Interacting Targets of Hessian Fly Effectors in Wheat
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 Molecular Network in Wheat - Hessian Fly Interactions
item New Uses for Low Falling Number Hard Winter Wheat and Mechanism Study
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 Tools for High-throughput Rheological Evaluation of Breeding Germplasm
item Virus-Host-Vector Interactions of Barley/Cereal Yellow Dwarf Viruses
item Wheat Pathology Research