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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
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Arboreta and botanical gardens
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Blueberry
Cheese
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cranberry
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Dairy cattle, general/other
Dairy cattle, live animal
Deciduous and small fruits, general/other
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Economy, general/other
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Eggs
Experimental design and statistical methods
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Fungi (includes yeast)
General Commodity
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
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Laboratory animals
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lentil
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Milk
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Narcotic plants
Nectarine
Nematodes
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Onion, garlic, leek, shallot
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other animals, general
Other beef cattle products
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other cultured finfish
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other poultry products
Other swine products
Oysters
Papaya
Parks and urban green space
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pear
Peas (dry)
People and communities, general/other
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Poultry, general/other
Protozoa
Raisin grapes
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Raspberry
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research equipment and methods, general/other
Rice
Salmon
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sheep, live animal
Soil
Soil and land, general
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Sugar crops, general/other
Sweet potato
Sweetcorn
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
Tea
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Trout
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viroids, mycoplasmas, spiroplasmas, etc.
Viruses
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wetland and riparian systems
Wheat, other
Wine grapes
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Wool fiber
Research Projects within Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
item Biochemistry and Physiology of Crop Adaptation to Soil-Based Abiotic Stresses
item Breeding Insight 3
item Breeding Insight Phase 2: Expansion to Support More Diverse Plant and Animal Use Cases
item Building Resilient Organic Weed Management Systems with Precision Smart Sprayer Technologies
item Building Resilient Organic Weed Management Systems with Precision Smart Sprayer Technologies
item Building Resilient Organic Weed Management Systems with Precision Smart Sprayer Technologies
item Building Resilient Organic Weed Management Systems with Precision Smart Sprayer Technologies
item CERCA - Circular Economy that Reimagines Corn Agriculture (CERCA: On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling)
item CERCA - On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling
item CERCA - On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling
item CERCA - On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling
item CERCA - On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling
item CERCA - On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling
item CERCA - On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling
item CERCA - On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling
item Championing Improvement of Sorghum and Other Agriculturally Important Species through Data Stewardship and Functional Dissection of Complex Traits
item Chemical Conversion of Biomass into High Value Products
item Citrus Research and Field Trials (CRAFT) Demonstrations
item Collaborative Animal Research Between Cornell University and USDA-ARS
item Creating a Circular Economy that Reimagines Agriculture Using Plant Diversity and Computational Modeling
item Crop Rotation Diversity DRIVES Resilience to Environmental and Economic Variability, and Improves Nutrition Outcomes
item Designing and Developing the Cyberinfrastructure and Web-Based Decision Tools for Conservation Vegetation Management in Agriculture
item Designing and Developing the Cyberinfrastructure and Web-Based Decision Tools for Conservation Vegetation Management in Agriculture
item Developing Genomic and Biological Resources to Characterize, Diagnose and Detect Emerging and Invasive Vectored Bacterial and Viral Plant Pathogens for Safeguarding U.S. Agriculture
item Developing, Evaluating, and Optimizing Diversified Agricultural Systems for a Changing Environment in the Mid-Atlantic Region
item Diagnostics and Biological Approaches for Management of Emerging Oomycete Plant Pathogens
item Elucidating the Grape Malate Tonoplast Transporter: A Targeted Approach for Controlling Fruit & Wine Acidity & Improving Grapevine Tolerance
item Enabling Mechanistic Allele Mining to Accelerate Genomic Selection for New Agro-Ecosystems
item Enhancing the Sustainability of United States Cropping Systems through Cover Crops and an Innovative Information and Technology Network
item Expanding the Cover Crop Breeding Network: New Species and Traits for Organic Growers
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Adoption
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Adoption
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Adoption
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption
item Field-scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption - NC State
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption - NDSU
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption - OH State Univ.
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption - Penn State Univ.
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption - Southern IL Univ.
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption - Un of KY
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption - Un of MN
item Field-Scale Testing of Weed Identification and Mapping Tools for Accelerating Integrated Weed Management Research and Adoption - VPI
item Function, Structure and Regulation of Membrane Transport Proteins Mediating Plant Mineral Nutrition and Abiotic Stress Responses
item Genetic Approaches to Improve Wheat Aluminum Resistance in a Carbon-Use-Efficient Means
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - CSU
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - KSU
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Montana State Univ.
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - NC State
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Penn State Univ.
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Purdue
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Southern IL Univ.
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Texas AgriLife
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Un of IL
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Un of KY
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Un of NE
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - Univ of GA
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - VPI
item GROW: A National Response to the Herbicide-Resistant Weed Epidemic - WSU
item Improving Maize and Sorghum Efficiency Using Grass Diversity and Computational Modeling
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Major Northeast and Great Lakes States Crops
item Long-Term Cropping Systems Impacts on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Pools
item National Vegetation Planning Decision Support Tools for Conservation Land-use Planners and Farmers
item Nutritional Quality and Micronutrient Bioavailability of Foods
item Precision Integrated Weed Management in Conventional and Organic Crop Production Systems
item Public/Private Partnerships for Assessing Integrated Weed Management - LSU
item Public/Private Partnerships for Assessing Integrated Weed Management Strategies
item Public/Private Partnerships for Assessing Integrated Weed Management Strategies - Texas A&M
item Public/Private Partnerships for Assessing Integrated Weed Management Strategies - Univ. of IL
item Public/Private Partnerships for Assessing Integrated Weed Management Strategies - VPI
item Selection to Distribution: Delivering Regionally Adapted Cover Crop Varieties to Organic Farmers
item Sustainable and Resilient Crop Production Systems Based on the Quantification and Modeling of Genetic, Environment, and Management Factors
item Uniting the Regional Cover Crop Councils to Build National Cover Crop Decision Support Tools
item Uniting the Regional Cover Crop Councils to Build National Cover Crop Decision Support Tools
item Uniting the Regional Cover Crop Councils to Build National Cover Crop Decision Support Tools - Un of MD
item Uniting the Regional Cover Crop Councils to Build National Cover Crop Decision Support Tools - Un of MO
item Uniting the Regional Cover Crop Councils to Build National Cover Crop Decision Support Tools - Un of VT
item User-testing of Cover Crop Performance Mapping Tool for Precision Integrated Weed Management
item User-testing of cover crop performance mapping tool for precision integrated weed management
item User-Testing of Cover Crop Performance Mapping Tool for Precision Integrated Weed Management
item User-Testing of Cover Crop Performance Mapping Tool for Precision Integrated Weed Management