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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.

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Subjects of Investigation
Air
Almond
Animal research, general
Aquatic plants
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Blueberry
Broadleaf forests of the South
Catfish
Chemurgic Crops
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Dairy cattle, live animal
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Duck and goose, live animal
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Eggplant
Eggs
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Finfish
Fish habitats
Forage legumes, other
Fungi (includes yeast)
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grapefruit
Grapes, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red winter wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Kenaf
Laboratory animals
Leguminous vegetables, other
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Nectarine
Noncrop plant research
Nonfarm structures and related facilities, including those used in
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other cultured finfish
Other poultry products
Oysters
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pecan
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Poultry, general/other
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research on research management (not research management per se)
Rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, and root crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Rice
River basins
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Soybean
Strawberry
Striped bass
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sweet potato
Sweet sorghum
Sweetcorn
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
The farm as an enterprise
Tilapia
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Walnut
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wetland and riparian systems
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife habitats
Wine grapes
Research Projects within Soybean
item Achieving Low N2O and CH4 Missions in Non-Flooded Rice Through Effective N Management Tools
item Agri-Eye: Embedding Agricultural Intelligence in UAV-based Frameworks for Monitoring Crops
item Agronomic and Engineering Solutions for Conventional and Organic Conservation Agricultural Systems in the Southeastern U.S.
item Assessing Micro-nutrients Applications for Efficient Soybean Production in the Mississippi Delta
item Assessing Multiple Benefits of Silcate Rock Dust Applications in Paddy Rice Under AWD Irrigation
item Biologically-based Management Systems for Insect Pests and Pollinators in Agricultural Landscapes in the Southeastern Region
item Breeding Stress Tolerant Soybeans, Regeneration and Evaluation of USDA Germplasm Collection,and Management of Uniform Soybean Trials
item Characterization of Soybean Germplasm for Use in the Alternative Protein Market
item Climate Stress Effects on Major Row Crops of Mississippi
item Collect Timely Information on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from On-farm Storage Irrigation Reservoirs in the Lower Mississippi River Basin in Arkansas
item Combatting Heat Stress Through Development of Heat Tolerant Soybeans
item Computational Biology: Studying Species of Agronomic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Importance
item Conservation Practices for Attaining Integrated Environment-Smart Cropping in Irrigated Row Crops
item Determining the Causes of Declining Test Weight of Soybean and Utilizing Breeding to Increase Test Weight
item Determining the Causes of Declining Test Weight of Soybean and Utilizing Breeding to Increase Test Weight
item Determining the Causes of Declining Test Weight of Soybean and Utilizing Breeding to Increase Test Weight
item Determining the Causes of Declining Test Weight of Soybean and Utilizing Breeding to Increase Test Weight
item Developing and Releasing High-Yielding Soybean Varieties/Germplasm with Climate-Resilience and Genetic Diversity Across Maturity Group 00 to VIII
item Developing Soybean Genotypes with High Yield Grown Under Reduced Fertilizer Inputs
item Developing Soybean Genotypes with High Yield Grown Under Reduced Fertilizer Inputs
item Developing Soybean Genotypes with High Yield Grown Under Reduced Fertilizer Inputs
item Development of Productive, Profitable, and Sustainable Crop Production Systems for the Mid-South
item Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Drill Seeded Rice with Soil Amendments using DNDC Model
item Evaluation of Nutrient Uptake, Agronomic Characteristics and Economic Productivity Limitations of Commercial Soybean Cultivars
item Evaluation of Soybean Breeding Lines for Variation Relevant to Protein Functionality
item Exploiting Genetic Diversity to Improve Environmental Resilience, Seed Composition, Yield, and Profitability of U.S. Soybean
item Farm-level Conservation Strategies to Reduce Carbon Footprint and Improve Productivity in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands) - (Jonesboro)
item Genomics of Malvaceae
item Identify Agronomic Interventions Need for Climate-smart Agriculture Using Remote Sensing, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and Big Data Approach
item Impacts of Bees on Yield Enhancement of Commonly Cultivated Field Crops
item Improve Temporal and Spatial Coverage of National Conservation Activity Data
item Improve Temporal and Spatial Coverage of National Conservation Activity Data
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from tall tower installation in rice-Jonesboro-DWMRU
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Major Mid-South Crops-Jonesboro-DWMRU
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Major Mid-South Crops-Jonesboro-Univ. of California/Davis
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Major Mid-South Crops-Jonesboro-University of Arkansas
item Improving Water Use Efficiency and Grain Yield of Furrow-Irrigated Rice
item Innovative Technologies and Practices to Enhance Water Quantity and Quality Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the Southeastern Coastal Plain
item Insect Control and Resistance Management in Corn, Cotton, Sorghum, Soybean, and Sweet Potato, and Alternative Approaches to Tarnished Plant Bug Control in the Southern United States
item Integrating Transcriptomic and Phosphoproteomic Regulatory Networks
item Integrative Applied Agricultural ‘Omics and Bioinformatics Research
item Life After the Flood: Disrupting Rice Farming by Integrating Automated, LoT-Irrigation Technologies into a Low-Water-Use Production System
item Management of Aflatoxin and Other Mycotoxins in Row Crops such as Maize, Peanut, and Soybean
item Molecular and Bioinformatic Analyses of Soybean Biotic/Abiotic Interactions and Physiology
item On-Farm Potato Yield Mapping Using High Resolution UAV and Satellite Remote Sensing Images and Machine
item Optimizing Conservation Management Practices for Improved Agronomic Performance and Enhanced Ecosystem Services of Cropping Systems in the Mississippi Delta Region
item Optimizing Pheromones and Semiochemicals for Monitoring and Management of Lygus lineolaris
item Optimizing the Management of Irrigated Cropping Systems in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Phenotyping of Soybean for Heat Stress Tolerance
item Practices for Management of Predominant Nematodes and Fungal Diseases for Sustainable Soybean Production
item Predicting Nitrogen and Sulfur Deficiency in Corn using Optical Sensors and Weed Mapping with UAV Multispectral Sensors
item Preserving Water Quantity and Quality for Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Quantifying Agronomic and Sustainability Benefits of Silicate Rock Dust Applications to Drill-Seeded Rice
item Resilience of Grain Crops to Chilling and Waterlogging Stress
item Row Crop Production under Climate Change – Assessment of Sustainable Management Practices for Plant and Soil Health
item Scaling Climate Smart Agriculture in Arkansas and Beyond
item Strategies to Optimize Productivity through Enhancement of Plant Stress Tolerance and Agroecological Farming Systems in the Southeastern US
item Strengthening 1890 Capacity in Plant Breeding and Promotion of Edamame and Dual-Purpose Soybeans for South Atlantic States
item Support for the Scaling of Climate Smart Agriculture for Arkansas and Beyond
item Understanding Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Irrigated Row Crop Systems
item Understanding Stink Bug-soybean Looper Interactions in Soybean in Arkansas and Mississippi
item USDA ARS Research Apprenticeship Program at University of Texas at Arlington
item Using Aerial Application and Remote Sensing Technologies for Targeted Spraying of Crop Protection Products
item Water Management Strategies to Reduce C Footprint and Preserve High Productivity in Irrigated Rice Systems
item Water Quality at the Edge of Field and In-Stream in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Weed Biology and Development of Improved Management Technologies for Invasive and Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
item Yield Limitations of Soybean Varieties Under Drought
item Yield Limitations of Soybean Varieties Under Drought: Identifying and Overcoming Weaknesses via Breeding, Genomics, Phenomics and Physiology