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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 Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
item Advancing Phenotyping Methods in Plant Breeding Programs
item Biobased Pesticide Discovery and Product Optimization and Enhancement from Medicinal and Aromatic Crops
item Bioinformatics and Application Development
item Bioinformatics and Application Development
item Building Tools for Specialty Crop Breeding Programs
item Computational Biology: Studying Species of Agronomic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Importance
item Coordinating Breeding Informatics to Benefit Specialty Crops
item Developing Intelligent Tools for High-throughput Crop Phenotyping
item Development of Improved Cytology-Aware Genome Assemblies of Intra-specific Sugarcane Hybrid Cultiivars
item Genomic and Informatic Development for Genetic and Phenotypic Analysis
item Genomics of Kenaf, Cotton, and Other Malvaceae
item Genomics of Malvaceae
item Integrative Applied Agricultural ‘Omics and Bioinformatics Research
item Investigating Agricultural and Environmental Systems
item Machine Learning Integration into Breeding Programs
item Modernizing Cotton and Other Crop Breeding Systems by Integrating Genomic Analyses
item The Development of a high Throughput Salmonella Pathogenic Screening Assay
item The Development of Microfluidic and Computational Techniques for Microbial Consortia Optimization
item The Development of Novel RNA Dependent RNA Polymerases, Nucleases, and Transposases by Metagenomics and Protein Engineering
item USDA ARS Research Apprenticeship Program at University of Texas at Arlington
item Xenosurveillance of Flies in Wet Markets to Monitor for the Emergence and Spillover Potential of Viral, Bacterial, and Parasitic Pathogens