Cities and Research Labs in Illinois

• Peoria, IL

• National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research:
• Crop Bioprotection Research: The Crop Bioprotection Unit conducts research to develop new biological control agents that replace or reduce the use of chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides that are potentially harmful to the environment, and/or human and animal health. New technologies that utilize agricultural (More)
• Plant Polymer Research: The Plant Polymer Research Unit conducts research to identify and develop enabling technologies to expand markets for agricultural commodities. Biobased materials create new market opportunities for coproducts of biofuels production and have reduced environmental footprints compared to products (More)
• Functional Foods Research: The Functional Foods Research Unit (FFR) creates new processing technologies to enhance the performance of agricultural materials in existing applications and develops new functional food products to promote human health using cereal grains, oilseeds, and non-traditional food plants. (More)
• Bioenergy Research: The Bioenergy Research Unit (BER) conducts a broad-based program of microbial, biochemical, genetic, and fermentation engineering research that is international in scope and importance addressing national research needs for new environmentally acceptable agricultural practices and value-added (More)
• Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research: The mission of the Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology research unit is to enhance food safety and crop production in the U.S. and around the world. Researchers in this unit integrate information from genetics, microbiology, chemistry and plant biology to develop novel approaches to (More)
• Bio-oils Research: The Bio-Oils Research Unit (BOR) identifies and develops new concepts and new industrial products and processes in utilizing commodity crops (soybean) and new crops (industrial hemp, lesquerella, pennycress, cuphea, and coriander, as well as genetically engineered traditional crops) that are (More)
• Renewable Product Technology Research: The Renewable Products Technologies Research Unit (RPT) conducts research that addresses America's need for sustainable industrial and consumer products using renewable agricultural feedstocks. The overall mission of RPT is to develop new technologies for the improved production of biofuels and (More)

• Urbana, IL

• Soybean/maize Germplasm, Pathology, and Genetics Research: The mission of this unit is to: 1) acquire, characterize, evaluate, maintain, utilize, and distribute germplasm accessions in the genus Glycine; 2) identify genes controlling traits of economic importance in soybean including seed yield, seed composition, and disease or pest resistance, and (More)
• Global Change and Photosynthesis Research: Identify factors affecting food and bioenergy crops, with emphasis on global environmental change, and to utilize this information to provide new opportunities for solving emerging agronomic problems. Research will address: 1) the major features limiting photosynthetic productivity of food and (More)

National Programs in Illinois

• Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology (104)
• Food Safety (animal and plant products) (108)
• Plant Genetic Resources, Genomics and Genetic Improvement (301)
• Plant Diseases (303)
• Crop Protection and Quarantine (304)
• Product Quality and New Uses (306)

• Appropriated Projects in Illinois

  • Environmentally-Friendly, Microbial and Plant-Based Agents for Mosquito Control ( Crop Bioprotection Research )
  • Discovery and Production of Beneficial Microbes for Control of Agricultural Pests through Integration into Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems ( Crop Bioprotection Research )
  • Develop an Improved Understanding of Microbe-pathogen Interactions for Biological Control ( Crop Bioprotection Research )
  • Agricultural-Feedstock Derived Biobased Particles ( Plant Polymer Research )
  • New and Improved Co-Products from Specialty Crops ( Plant Polymer Research )
  • Circular Bio-economy via Value-Added Biobased Products ( Plant Polymer Research )
  • Increasing Food Shelf-Life, Reducing Food Waste, and Lowering Saturated Fats with Natural Antioxidants and Oleogels ( Functional Foods Research )
  • Improved Utilization of Whole Pulses, Pulse Fractions, and Pulse Byproducts for Health-Promoting Food Ingredients and Biobased Products ( Functional Foods Research )
  • Improved Processes and Technologies for Comprehensive Utilization of Specialty Grains in Functional Food Production for Digestive Health and Food Waste Reduction ( Functional Foods Research )
  • Development of Enhanced Bio-Based Products from Low Value Agricultural Co-Products and Wastes ( Functional Foods Research )
  • New Bioproducts for Advanced Biorefineries ( Bioenergy Research )
  • Technologies to Improve Conversion of Biomass-Derived Sugars to Bioproducts ( Bioenergy Research )
  • Improving Food Safety by Controlling Mycotoxin Contamination and Enhancing Climate Resilience of Wheat and Barley ( Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research )
  • Innovative Approaches to Monitor, Predict, and Reduce Fungal Toxins ( Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research )
  • Innovative Food and Feed Safety Research to Eliminate Mycotoxin Contamination in Corn and other Crops ( Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research )
  • Management and Characterization of Microbial Genetic Resources and Associated Descriptive Information ( Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research )
  • Development of New Value-Added Processes and Products from Advancing Oilseed Crops ( Bio-oils Research )
  • New High-Value Biobased Materials with Applications Across Industry ( Bio-oils Research )
  • Coordinated Analysis of Soybean Breeding Germplasm ( Bio-oils Research )
  • Versatile Biobased Products with Multiple Functions ( Bio-oils Research )
  • Technologies for Producing Marketable Bioproducts ( Renewable Product Technology Research )
  • Antimicrobials for Biorefining and Agricultural Applications ( Renewable Product Technology Research )
  • Identify and Characterize Resistance to Soybean Pathogens and Pests ( Soybean/maize Germplasm, Pathology, and Genetics Research )
  • Management, Utilization, and Distribution of Maize Genetic Stocks and Associated Descriptive Information ( Soybean/maize Germplasm, Pathology, and Genetics Research )
  • Maintenance, Characterization, Evaluation, and Enhancement of Genetic Resources in the National Soybean Germplasm Collection ( Soybean/maize Germplasm, Pathology, and Genetics Research )
  • Minor Use Weed Management ( Global Change and Photosynthesis Research )
  • Resilience of Integrated Weed Management Systems to Climate Variability in Midwest Crop Production Systems ( Global Change and Photosynthesis Research )
  • Enhancing Photosynthesis for Agricultural Resiliency and Sustainability ( Global Change and Photosynthesis Research )