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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
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
General technology
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
Strawberry
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 Wheat, other
item Agreement with Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS) to Store PVP Seed Material
item Characterization of Host-range Defining Factors in Xanthomonas translucens
item Characterization of necrotrophic effectors in the Parastagonospora nodorum-wheat interaction
item Collaborative Research with the Center for Plant Conservation to Determine Responses to Long-term Storage Conditions
item Curation and Research to Safeguard and Expand Collections of Plant and Microbial Genetic Resources and Associated Descriptive Information
item Development of Educational Materials for the Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources
item Development of Online Content for Educating About Plant Genetic Resources
item Evaluation of Wheat Germplasm for Wheat Stem Sawfly Resistance in Regional Nurseries
item Functional Characterization of Pathogen Produced Effectors and Their Host Targets
item Genetic Analysis and Improvement of Wheat for Resistance to Foliar Disease
item Genomic Analysis of Septoria Nodorum Blotch Susceptibility Genes in Wheat
item Germination and Longevity Characteristics of Seeds from US Native Species Collected for the Seeds of Success Program to Support Genebanking and Use
item Improvement of Disease and Pest Resistance in Barley, Durum, Oat, and Wheat Using Genetics and Genomics
item PCHI: Assessing the Impacts of Dryland Wheat-pea Rotations and Compost Application on Soil Health and Soil Carbon Dynamics
item Permeability of Vitrification Solutions into Plant Cells and Shoot Tips
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 RNA Integrity as a Powerful Metric of Aging in Preserved Seed Collections of Wild Rare Plant Species
item Seed Quality and Germination Tests of Seeds Stored at NLGRP
item Sequencing and Assembly of Cereal Wild Relatives’ Genomes
item Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Cereals