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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 Horses, ponies, and mules
item Animal Studies in BSL-3 Containment at Pat Roberts Hall for Comparative Zoonotic Arbovirus Studies
item Assessing Arbovirus Effects on Sensory Function and Behavior of Female Culicoides Sonorensis Midges
item Biology and Management of Dipteran Pests of Livestock and Other Animals
item Characterization and Diagnostic Detection of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Strains Causing Outbreaks in North America
item Designing a Bioinformatics Training Strategic Partnership and Hub
item Development of Diagnostic Reagents and Assays for Arbovirus Surveillance
item Ecology of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
item Epidemiological Modeling of Vector-borne Diseases
item Heritable Viruses in Insects
item Host Cellular Immune Responses to Arboviruses
item Investigating the Dynamics of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus in Endemic and Incursion Ecological Zones
item Mid-infrared Spectra (MIRS) Paired with Visual Spectrum Images for Deep Learning Based Classification of Surveillance Variables
item Novel Insecticide Delivery and Formulation for Resistance Management in Zoonotic Disease Vectors
item Novel Insecticide Delivery and Formulation for Resistance Management in Zoonotic Disease Vectors
item Predicting and Mitigating Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) in North America
item Predicting and Mitigating Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) Outbreaks in North America
item Southeastern USA Arbovirus Landscape
item Supporting and Enhancing the Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Grand Challenge Project
item The Role of House Flies in Harboring and Disseminating Antimicrobial-Resistant (AMR) Bacteria at Kansas Cattle Operations
item Using House Flies as Sentinels to Monitor Existing, Emerging and Cryptic Microbial Threats to U.S. Military Personnel
item UTMB-USDA Collaboration on Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks and Animals
item Vector Surveillance at an Active Cache Valley Virus Focus
item Vesicular Stomatitis as a Model for a Predictive Disease Ecology