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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 Viruses
item Animal and Arthropod Studies in BSL3 Containment at Pat Roberts Hall for Comparative Zoonotic Arbovirus Studies
item Assessing the Risk of Emergence, Transmission and Establishment of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus in the United States
item Attachment and/or Entry Mechanisms of Bluetongue Virus into Bovine Red Blood Cells
item BVDV Challenge of Calves
item Characterization of Defective Viral Genomes of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
item Characterization of Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry
item Demonstration of Long-term Protection Against RVFV Infection Afforded by a Single Dose of Rift Valley Fever Smithburn MLV Vaccine in Sheep
item Detection and Characterization of Potential Emerging and Emergent Arboviruses in Mosquitoes in the Caribbean
item Development of Diagnostic Reagents and Assays for Arbovirus Surveillance
item Development of Diagnostic Tools for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Development of Lateral Flow Assays for Rift Valley Fever Virus Antigen and Antibody Detection
item Development of Novel Strategies to Investigate Arthropod Feeding and Arbovirus Transmission
item Ecology of Hemorrhagic Orbiviruses in North America
item Effects of Repellent and Sublethal Insecticide Exposure on Culicoides Biting Midge Behavior and Susceptibility to Bluetongue Virus
item Exosomes as Mediators of Arbovirus Transmission by Insects
item Exploration of Novel repRNA Vaccine Candidates for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Exploration of Novel repRNA Vaccine Candidates for Rift Valley Fever Virus
item Exploration of Novel Virus-like Particle Vaccine Candidates for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Host Cellular Immune Responses to Arboviruses
item Identifying Flavivirus Determinants of Entry and Replication and Design of Potential Vaccine Candidates
item Impact of Flower Nectar on Mosquito Longevity and Virus Transmission
item Impact of Timing of Virus Acquisition on Bluetongue Virus Coinfection
item Improved Vector-Borne Disease Response in South Asia
item Intentional Genomic Alteration of Beef Cattle for Reducing Susceptibility to Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV)
item Investigation of Arboviral Infection Rates and Blood Meal Sources of Various Mosquito Species in Rift Valley Fever Endemic Areas in Kenya
item Japanese Encephalitis Virus Prevention and Mitigation Strategies
item Molecular Characterization and Epidemiological Surveillance of Arboviruses in Kenya’s Wildlife
item Molecular Characterization of Arboviruses in South African Livestock
item New Tools for Vector-pathogen-host Investigations
item Pathogenesis and Wildlife Host Range of Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Population Genetics of Potential Rift Valley Fever Virus Vectors in South Africa
item Predicting and Mitigating Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) in North America
item Regulation of Maintenance of Bovine Herepsvirus (BoHV-1) Latency by Viral and Cellular Factors
item Rift Valley Fever Pathogenesis and Epidemiology
item Strategies to Control Respiratory Diseases of Cattle
item Supporting Foreign Transboundary Arbovirus Research
item The Impact of Insects as Animal Food
item Xenosurveillance Using Arthropod Vectors to Characterize Vector-borne Disease Epidemiology