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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
Baitfish (minnows and shiners)
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
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
Clothing and textiles, general
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
Insects
item A Holistic Time-Series Analysis of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease
item A Multidimensional Approach to Tropilaelaps Mite Prevention, Early Detection and Rapid Responses upon Introduction
item A Multidisciplinary Approach for Tackling Emerging Disease Outbreaks in Honeybees, Apis mellifera
item A Multidisciplinary Approach for Tackling Emerging Disease Outbreaks in Honeybees, Apis Mellifera
item A Symbiota Portal for the ARS Collection of Entomopathogenic Fungal Cultures (ARSEF)
item Adaptation of Grain Crops to Varying Environments Including Climates, Stressors, and Human Uses
item Advanced Technologies for Tropical Invasive Pest Management in Hawaii
item Advancing Establishment of an Introduced Parasitoid for Biocontrol of Drosophila Suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item Advancing Establishment of an Introduced Parasitoid for Biocontrol of Drosophila Suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item Advancing Establishment of an Introduced Parasitoid for Biocontrol of Drosophila suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item Advancing establishment of an introduced parasitoid for biocontrol of Drosophila suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item An Epidemiological Approach to the Understanding and Control of Disease Infections in Honey Bees
item Animal and Arthropod Studies in BSL3 Containment at Pat Roberts Hall for Comparative Zoonotic Arbovirus Studies
item Assessing the Risk of Emergence, Transmission and Establishment of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus in the United States
item Bee Stress Response and Overwintering Physiology
item Biocontrol of Gypsy Moth and Other Lepidopteran Pests of the Northeast Area through Development of Microbial Pathogen-Based Biological Control
item Biological and Behavioral Evaluation of Lycorma Natural Enemies
item Biological Control and Habitat Restoration for Invasive Weed Management
item Biological Control of Emerald Ash Borer in the State of Vermont
item Biological Control of Emerald Ash Borer to Protect North American Ash
item Biological Control Organism Databases and Assessments
item Biologically-based Management Systems for Insect Pests and Pollinators in Agricultural Landscapes in the Southeastern Region
item Biologically-Based Products for Insect Pest Control and Emerging Needs in Agriculture
item Biology, Ecology, Genetics, and Genomics of Introduced Species for Biological Control of Invasive and Other Insect Pests
item Biology, Management and Reducing the Impact of the Spotted Lanternfly on Specialty Crops in the Eastern USA
item Characterization of Defective Viral Genomes of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
item Characterization of Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry
item Characterization of Virus Populations Associated with Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus-Infected Plants in Cotton
item Characterize Rootworm Larvae For BT Tolerance and Artificial Diets for Improved Understanding of Rootworm Biology and Management
item Classical Biological Control of Invasive Forest Insect Pests: Discovery and Foreign Exploration for New Natural Enemies
item Collaborative Research Involving the Use of Biohazardous Materials, Biological Toxins, Non-Exempt rDNA, and/or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules
item Collection, Recovery and Rearing of Emerald Ash Borer and Associated Parasitoids from Infested Ash Logs in Maryland
item Cotton Leaf Roll Dwarf Virus Disease Management
item Cotton Leaf Roll Dwarf Virus Disease Management
item Cryopreservation of Anopheles Mosquitoes
item Defining Biochemical Pathways That Regulate Mouthpart Development and Seminal Fluid Production in Stable Fly Males
item Detecting and Tracking Infection by the Biocontrol Pathogen, Ovavesicula Popilliae
item Developing and Deploying Novel Tools to Support Varroa Mite IPM in Specialty Crop Pollinating Honey Bee Colonies
item Developing Phylogenomic-based Diagnostic Tools for Species Identification Across Diptera
item Developing Sustainable Rose Landscapes via RRD Assessments and Breeding RRD Resistant Roses with Stable Blackspot Resistance
item Developing Sustainable Rose Landscapes via RRD Assessments and Breeding RRD Resistant Roses with Stable Blackspot Resistance
item Development of biological control methods for control of spotted lanternfly
item Development of Biological Control Methods for Control of Spotted Lanternfly and Roseau Cane Scale
item Development of Biological Control Tools to Manage Insect Vector Borne Plant Pathogens
item Development of Botanical-Based Pesticide to Control Pests of Medical Importance
item Development of Diagnostic Reagents and Assays for Arbovirus Surveillance
item Development of Genomic and Population
item Development of Molecular Tools to Control Citrus Greening Disease
item Development of Novel Strategies to Investigate Arthropod Feeding and Arbovirus Transmission
item Development of Species-specific Yeast RNAi Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits for Spotted Wing Drosophila Control
item Diagnostic Tools for Identification of Common Pine Sawfly
item Discovery and Production of Beneficial Microbes for Control of Agricultural Pests through Integration into Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems
item Ecology and Integrated Management of Ambrosia Beetles in Eastern US Orchard and Ornamental Tree Crops
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 Elucidating Tick-fungal Entomopathogen Interactions for Improved Tick Control
item Enhancing Pollinator Health and Availability Through Conservation of Genetic Diversity and Development of Novel Management Tools and Strategies
item Environmentally Aware Deep Learning Based Genomic Selection And Management Optimization For Maize Yield
item Environmentally-Friendly, Microbial and Plant-Based Agents for Mosquito Control
item Evaluation of Symbiont Technology in Florida Citrus Groves
item Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Biocontrol Agents against Emerald Ash Borer Infesting Ash and White Fringe Tree in Urban Forests
item Exploring Diet, Microbiome, and Health in an Economically Important Cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)
item Field Surveys and Collections in SW China for Spotted Wing Drosophila Parasitoids
item Functional Characterization of Sex-biased Odorant Receptors in Screwworm to Develop Sex Specific Baits
item Fusion of Machine Learning and Electromagnetic Sensors for Real-Time Local Decisions in Agriculture
item Fusion of Machine Learning and Electromagnetic Sensors for Real-Time Local Decisions in Agriculture
item Genetics of Veterinary Pests
item Genomics of Fungi Associated with Invasive Invertebrates
item Grove Evaluation of Symbiont Technology
item Headquarters Cooperative Programs - Animal Production and Protection (APP)
item Heirlooms of the United States, Midwest Evaluation
item Heirlooms of the United States, Southeast Evaluation
item Heritable Viruses in Insects
item Honey Bee Parasite Genetics
item Identification and functional characterization of the odorant receptors used by western corn rootworm larvae to detect maize-produced semiochemicals
item Identification of Insects and Mites of Importance to Quarantine and Biosecurity
item Identification of Insects and Mites of Importance to Quarantine and Biosecurity
item Identification of Microbes for Biological Control of SCN in NY State
item Identifying Flavivirus Determinants of Entry and Replication and Design of Potential Vaccine Candidates
item Improved Vector-Borne Disease Response in South Asia
item Insect Cell Culture Modeling
item Insecticidal Nanoparticles
item Institutional Biological Safety Committee (IBC) Agreement - University of Missouri
item Integrated control of Varroa mites at the USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory
item Integrated Control of Varroa Mites at the USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory
item Integrated Crop Disease Mitigation through Improved Understanding of Relationships between Genetics, Environment, and Management
item Integrated Pest Management of Flies of Veterinary Importance
item Interactive Effects of Temperature and Gut Microbiota on Resistance to Infection in Honey Bees
item Interfering with Insect Vector Transmission of Plant Pathogens Using RNA-based Technology
item Introduction of Aphelinus Hordei for Biological Control of the Russian Wheat Aphid
item Introduction of Aphelinus Hordei for Biological Control of the Russian Wheat Aphid
item Investigating New World Screwworm Courtship and Mate Selection
item Investigation of Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Sacbrood Virus (SBV) Infection in Honeybees
item Investigation of Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Sacbrood Virus (SBV) Infection in Honeybees
item Japanese Encephalitis Virus Prevention and Mitigation Strategies
item Locust Sequencing as Genomic Infrastructure for the Study of Phenotypic Plasticity by the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute (BPRI)
item Management and Biology of Arthropod Pests and Arthropod-borne Plant Pathogens
item Managing Honey Bees Against Disease and Colony Stress
item Mapping the Genetic Loci Controlling Highland Adaptation in Maize
item Microbial Interactions in the Soybean Cyst Nematode Suppressive Soil Microbiome
item Microbial Interactions in the Soybean Cyst Nematode Suppressive Soil Microbiome
item Missouri Maize Center - Joint Administration of the Genetics Farm
item Molecular Characterization of Arboviruses in South African Livestock
item Monitoring, Implementing and Evaluating the Impacts of New Biological Control Programs for Flowering Rush and Common Crupina
item Mosquito Vector Predictive Modeling in a Changing Climate
item Moving from Crisis Response to Long-Term Integrated Management of SWD: A Keystone Pest of Fruit Crops in the United States
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 New Approaches to Control Development of Novel Management Tools for Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus and its Insect Vectors Using Molecular Virology
item New Tools for Vector-pathogen-host Investigations
item Novel Delivery Strategies of dsRNA for RNAi-Based Control of Wood-Boring Insects
item Novel Delivery Strategies of dsRNA for RNAi-Based Control of Wood-Boring Insects
item Optimizing and Stabilizing Economic and Ecological Sustainability of Pacific Northwest Seed Cropping Systems Under Current and Future Climate Conditions
item Overwintering Physiology of Insect Pollinators and Pests
item Pest and Beneficial Insect Inventory and Monitoring on Valles Caldera National Preserve for the Resilient Landscapes Ecosystem Restoration Program
item Plant Genetics Resources Unit Federal Building Utility Agreement
item Predicting and Mitigating Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) in North America
item Preemptive Biological Control of a High-Risk Invasive Longhorn Beetle
item Preemptive Biological Control of a High-Risk Invasive Longhorn Beetle
item Preemptive Biological Control of a High-Risk Invasive Longhorn Beetle
item Prevention of Pests and Disease Vectors from Adversely Affecting DoD Operations
item Protection of North American Ash Against Emerald Ash Borer with Biological Control: Measuring Natural Enemy Impacts
item Protection of North American Ash Industry and Forests against Emerald Ash Borer with Biological Control
item Protection of North American ash with Biocontrol:Measuring Natural Enemy Impacts
item Proteomic, Genomic and Biological Characterization of Emerging Viruses in Cotton
item Public Facing Website for Universal Database of Chalcidoidea
item Rearing, Identification, and Evaluation of Emerald Ash Borer Larval Parasitoid Spathius Agrili Collected from its Established Areas in Tennessee
item Reducing Maize Grain Nitrogen In Support of CERCA, The Circular Economy That Re-imagines Corn Agriculture
item Relating Traits of Weeds to Invasiveness
item Sampling Midwest Bee Diversity for Genomics
item Screwworm Genetic Sexing Line Development
item SP: Molecular Strategies to Block Psyllid Transmission of the Huanglongbing (HLB) Pathogen
item SP: Molecular Strategies to Block Psyllid Transmission of the Huanglongbing (HLB) Pathogen
item SP: Molecular Strategies to Block Psyllid Transmission of the Huanglongbing (HLB) Pathogen
item Straining the Gut: Diversity of and Genome-Based Treatments for Trypanosomatid Parasites of Honey Bees
item Sustaining the USDA Symbiota Portal and ARS Entomopathogenic Fungal Cultures Collection (ARSEF)
item Systematics of Acari and Hemiptera: Plant Pests, Predators, and Disease Vectors
item Systematics of Beetles, Flies, Moths and Wasps with an Emphasis on Agricultural Pests, Invasive Species, Biological Control Agents, and Food Security
item Systematics of Insects and Mites: Plant Pests, Predators and Disease Vectors
item The Impact of Insects as Animal Food
item The Landrace Heirlooms of Maize of the United States (Columbia, MO)
item The Regulation of Diapause by Maternal Effects & the Effect of Environmental Stress on Bee Quality
item Using Big Data to Improve Diagnosis of Larval Disease in Honey Bees
item Utilize the University of Missouri Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee