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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 Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
item A Systematic Research Approach to Responsive Agriculture for the Advancement of Health
item A Systems Approach to Responsive Agriculture
item Acute Effects of Sedentary Behaviors on Cardiometabolic Risk in Latino Youth
item Adipocyte Gap Junction on Milk Production and Milk Quality & Hypothalamic Regulation on Lactational Hyperphagia
item Aligning Production Agricultural Systems to Enhance Diet and Health Outcomes
item Biomarkers of Nutritional Status Resulting from Altered Food Composition
item Clinical Research
item Community Nutrition and Physical Activity Program
item Diet and Neurocognitive Development: A Metabolomic Enhanced Analysis
item Dietary and Physical Activity Guidance for Weight Loss and Maintenance
item Early-Life Environment, Critical Windows, and Long-Term Health
item Evaluation of Human Milk, Dairy Resources, and Medical Nutrition Products to Optimally Meet Human Infant's Nutrition Needs
item Examine Drivers of Obesity Risk in Youth from Under-Represented Families
item Factors Regulating Plant Nutritional Quality and Productivity
item Fostering the Development of Future Dietitians
item Health Benefits of Specific Dietary Components
item Human Obesity Prevention Research
item Impact of Prenatal Fish Oil on Newborn Cognition and Fetal Gestation
item Integrating Community Nutrition with Improved Pregnancy Outcomes
item Interaction of Microbiome and Phenylalanine Metabolism in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases
item Metabolic and Epigenetic Regulation of Nutritional Metabolism
item Microbiota and Nutritional Health
item Molecular Mechanisms in Diet-Related Chronic Disease
item Molecular, Cellular, and Regulatory Aspects of Obesity Development
item Neural Signaling and Feeding/Glycemic Control
item Nutrition Research and Chronic Disease Prevention for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Pregnant and Lactating Women
item Nutritional Role of Phytochemicals
item Physical Activity, Energy Balance, Sleep and Health in Children
item Preventing the Development of Childhood Obesity
item Program Development to Address Responsive Agriculture for the Advancement of Health
item Role of Perinatal Nutrition on Overall Health and the Prevention of Disease
item Unraveling the Complexities of Lactation: Exploring Gene-Variant Networks, Hypothalamic Regulation, and Metabolic Adaptations of the Liver-Gut Axis