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Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Apricot
Aquatic plants
Arboreta and botanical gardens
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
Berries and cane fruits, other
Biological Cell Systems
Blueberry
Broadleaf forests of the South
Canola
Carrot
Catfish
Cheese
Chemurgic Crops
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Conifer forests of the North
Conifer forests of the South
Conifer forests of the West
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cranberry
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Cut flowers, foliage, and greens
Dairy cattle, general/other
Dairy cattle, live animal
Date
Deciduous and small fruits, general/other
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Domestic and community water supply facilities and systems
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Duck and goose, live animal
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Eggplant
Eggs
Experimental design and statistical methods
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Filbert
Finfish
Fish habitats
Flax
Florist crops, other
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
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)
Ground covers
Guayule
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Herbs and spices
Honey bees
Hops
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Kenaf
Kiwi
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Lesquerella
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Milk
Mint
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Mixed conifer-broadleaf forests
Mountain grasslands, meadow, and alpine
Mushrooms and other edible fungi
Narcotic plants
Nectarine
Nematodes
Noncrop plant research
Nonfarm structures and related facilities, including those used in
Oats
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 dairy cattle products
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other poultry products
Other swine products
Oysters
Papaya
Paper and pulp derived products
Parks and urban green space
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pear
Peas (dry)
Peas (fresh, fresh-processed)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Pineapple
Pinyon-juniper
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Poultry, general/other
Protozoa
Raisin grapes
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Raspberry
Red clover
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research equipment and methods, general/other
Research on research management (not research management per se)
Rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, and root crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Rice
River basins
Rubber, gum, and resin plants, other
Rye
Salmon
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep and wool, general/other
Sheep, live animal
Shellfish
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Striped bass
Structures, facilities, and equipment, general/other
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Sugar crops, general/other
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Sweet potato
Sweet sorghum
Sweetcorn
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
Taro
Tea
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Tilapia
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Trout
Tung
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viroids, mycoplasmas, spiroplasmas, etc.
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 and natural fisheries, general/other
Wildlife habitats
Wine grapes
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Wood and wood products
Wool fiber
Honey bees
item A microRNA Approach to Understanding Honey Bee Pathogen-Host Interactions
item A Low Cost Acoustic Sensor for Bee Identification
item A Multidisciplinary Approach for Tackling Emerging Disease Outbreaks in Honeybees, Apis mellifera
item A Novel AI-Driven Smart System for Insecticide-Free Fire Ant Control
item AmE-711 Cell Line as a Platform for Reporter Gene Assays
item An Epidemiological Approach to the Understanding and Control of Disease Infections in Honey Bees
item Analyzing Factors Contributing to Long-term Honey Bee Health and Hive Performance
item Analyzing Nutritional Content of Pollen in Relation to Long-term Honey Bee Colony Health
item Apiary Sites for USDA-ARS Carl Hayden Bee Research Center (CHBRC), Research Honey Bee Colonies
item Assessing Crop Ecophysiology for Sustainable Agricultural Production in the Southern High Plains
item Assessing the Role of Different Environmental Stressors Impacting Bee Health in the Mid-Western Arkansas Region
item Assessment and Improvements of Honey Bee Stocks in Urban Environments
item Bee Stress Response and Overwintering Physiology
item Chemical Communications of Plants, Insects, Microbes, and Nematodes
item Colonies in Cold Storage by Examining Relationships among Brood Rearing, Fat Body Metrics & Hours in Cluster to Predict Formation of Winter Bees
item Conduct Longitudinal Studies on Colony Performance and Explore Near-term Effects of Nutritional and Agrochemical Stressors on Honey Bee Health
item Contribution of Tallow to Honey Bee Colony Nutrition
item Creating a Phenology Wheel for Beekeepers in the Southeast Region
item Creating Linux and WWW Versions of the VARROAPOP Program
item Crop Coexistence with Pollinator-Mediated Gene Flow Under Changing Environments
item Determining the Impact of Non-target Applications of Herbicides on Bee Forage and Integrating Strategies to Minimize Negative Effects on Bee Health
item Developing and Deploying Novel Tools to Support Varroa Mite IPM in Specialty Crop Pollinating Honey Bee Colonies
item Developing and Deploying Novel Tools to Support Varroa Mite IPM in Specialty Crop Pollinating Honey Bee Colonies
item Development of a Ferromagnetic Materials-Based Inductor Core for an In-Hive Honey Bee Queen Tracking System
item Development of a Mass-rearing Honey Bee System Under Controlled Conditions
item Development of Semiochemical-based Trapping Methods for Insect Pests on Row Crops
item Does infection by a fungal pathogen influence host-plant response and vector behavior to enhance transmission? (PostDoc Fellowships FASE)
item Ecological Assessment and Mitigation Strategies to Reduce the Risks of Bees to Stressors in Southern Crop Ecosystems
item Ecological Assessment and Mitigation Strategies to Reduce the Risks of Bees to Stressors in Southern Crop Ecosystems
item Effects of Organosilicone Surfactant Components on Honey Bee Reproduction and the Endocrine System
item Effects of Temperature and Gut Microbiota on Resistance to Infection in Honey Bees
item Elucidating the Mechanisms of Varroa Mite Vectoring of DWV-like Viruses and the Capacity of Recombinant Virus Vectors to Control Varroa Mites
item Elucidating the Mechanisms of Varroa Mite Vectoring of DWV-like Viruses and the Capacity of Recombinant Virus Vectors to Control Varroa Mites
item Enhancing Pollinator Health and Availability Through Conservation of Genetic Diversity and Development of Novel Management Tools and Strategies
item Establishing Agronomic and Pest Management Practices for Vegetable, Specialty Crops, and Fruit Growers while Improving Pollinator Health
item Estimate the Pesticide and Adjuvant Exposure to Insect Pollinators from Spray Drift
item Evaluation of Native Bees as Pollinators of Small Fruits on Small Farms
item Functional Genomics of Varroa Destructor-Apis Mellifera Interactions
item Fusion of Machine Learning and Electromagnetic Sensors for Real-Time Local Decisions in Agriculture
item Harnessing Fungal Natural Products for Scalable and Sustainable Honey Bee Antiviral Therapeutics
item Harnessing Fungal Natural Products for Scalable and Sustainable Honey Bee Antiviral Therapeutics
item Honey Bee Parasite Genetics
item Identifying Pollen Phagostimulants via Metabolomics to Improve Artificial Diet Palatability and Effectiveness
item Impacts of Bees on Yield Enhancement of Commonly Cultivated Field Crops
item Improving Honey Bee Resilience to Biotic and Abiotic Stressors
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 Integrated control of Varroa mites at the USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory
item Interactive Effects of Temperature and Gut Microbiota on Resistance to Infection in Honey Bees
item Investigating of the Mechanisms of Action of CFTR Correctors in Rescuing DeltaF508-CFTR
item Investigating the Impacts of Viral Infection on Visual Pathways and Responses in the Honey Bee
item Investigation of Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Sacbrood Virus (SBV) Infection in Honeybees
item Locust Sequencing as Genomic Infrastructure for the Study of Phenotypic Plasticity by the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute (BPRI)
item Management of Diseases, Pests, and Pollinators of Horticultural Crops
item Managing Honey Bees Against Disease and Colony Stress
item Microalgae as a Novel Platform to Improve Honey Bee Nutrition, Microbiome Health, and Pathogen Resistance
item Multi-Environment Quantification of Extra-floral Nectar Production in Modern and Obsolete Cotton Cultivars
item Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding Attraction and Vectoring by a Key Parasite of Honey Bees
item Natural Products for Honey Bee Immunity & Disease Resistance
item Nectar Content and Quantity in Floral and Extrafloral Nectaries in Cotton
item Nutritional Analysis of Pollen from Bee Pollinated Plants
item Nutritional Analysis of Pollen from Bee Pollinated Plants
item Optimizing Macronutrient Contents in the Honey Bee Diet as a Mechanism for Pathogen Defense
item Optimizing Pheromones and Semiochemicals for Monitoring and Management of Lygus lineolaris
item Pangenome and Genetic Characterization of Global Honey Bee Populations
item Pollinator Health and Interactions with Nutrition in Southern Crop Ecosystems
item Quantifying and Reducing Colony Losses from Nutritional, Pathogen/Parasite, and Pesticide Stress by Improving Colony Management Practices
item Quantifying The Effects of Pesticides on Honey Bee Reproduction
item Selection and Production of Virus-resistant Honey Bees: Ensuring Future Food Security by Reducing Colony Losses, Improving Beekeeping Sustainability
item Sequencing the Genomes of North American Bee Species
item Straining the Gut: Diversity of and Genome-Based Treatments for Trypanosomatid Parasites of Honey Bees
item Strategies to Reduce Risk of Bees to Various Stressors in the Mississippi Delta
item Sustainable Conservation of Pollinators
item The Effect of the Weather on the Honey Bee Health
item The Honey Bee Microbiome in Health and Disease
item The Regulation of Diapause by Maternal Effects & the Effect of Environmental Stress on Bee Quality
item Understanding and Mitigating Important Stressors of Bees and other Insect Pollinators in the Mid- South United States
item Understanding Host-Microbiota Interactions to Improve Honey Bee Health
item Understanding Stink Bug-soybean Looper Interactions in Soybean in Arkansas and Mississippi
item Using Big Data to Improve Diagnosis of Larval Disease in Honey Bees
item Using Big Data to Improve Diagnosis of Larval Disease in Honey Bees
item Using Big Data to Improve Diagnosis of Larval Health and Disease in Honey Bees
item Using Genetics to Improve the Breeding and Health of Honey Bees
item Using Information on Beekeeper Mgmt Practices & Landscape Characteristics to Understand Honeybee Health & Reduce Colony Losses in the Mid-South
item Viral Diversity in Mite Resistant Honey Bees and Its Impact on Colony Health
item Which Queens Produce the Bees for North Dakota Beekeepers
item Wireless Monitoring System for Online Insect Tracking Data Analysis
item Year Two of a Comprehensive Assessment of Honey Bee Pollen Substitutes
item Year Two of a Comprehensive Assessment of Honey Bee Pollen Substitutes