ARS Research Labs Studying Corn

• Cropping Systems Research Laboratory: Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Research
• Cropping Systems Research Laboratory: Wind Erosion and Water Conservation Research
• Plant Genetics Research
• Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center: Toxicology & Mycotoxin Research
• Crop Genetics and Breeding Research
• Crop Science Research Laboratory
• Crop Science Research Laboratory: Corn Host Plant Resistance Research
• Genomics and Bioinformatics Research
• Crop Production Systems Research
• Plant Science Research
• Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory

72 Research Projects Studying Corn

• Integrated crop-livestock systems for the western corn belt (Agroecosystem Management Research)
• Impact of agricultural intensification on microbial processes underpinning soil health in the western corn belt (Agroecosystem Management Research)
• Ecology and integrated management of ambrosia beetles in eastern us orchard and ornamental tree crops-cornell (Application Technology Research)
• Experimentation, model development and on-farm application crop and soil process models for corn, potato...experiment stations (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory)
• Metabolomics of seeds (corn grain) and tomato (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Field and laboratory studies of the invasive introduced longhorned tick haemaphysalis longicornis (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory)
• Identification and functional characterization of the odorant receptors used by western corn rootworm larvae to detect maize-produced semiochemicals (Biological Control of Insects Research)
• Optimizing corn-based starch bioplastic formulations to enhance the efficacy of beneficial pathogens to control agricultural pests (Biological Control of Pests Research)
• Long-term beef manure influences soil quality, carbon dynamics, and corn productivity (Center for Agricultural Resources Research: Water Management and Systems Research)
• Sweet cap: integrated technologies to improve sweet corn production and marketability (Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology: Chemistry Research)
• Corn mycotoxin mitigation initiative (Cereal Disease Research)
• Breeding corn to enable organic seed production (Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research)
• Breeding corn to enable organic seed production - iowa (Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research)
• Breeding corn to enable organic seed production - illinois (Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research)
• Breeding corn to enable organic seed production - puerto rico (Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research)
• Combination of major genes for improvement of organic specialty corn varieties (comgi) (Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research)
• Detection and characterization of genetic resistance to corn and soybean viruses (Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research)
• Seed transmission, epidemiology, and management of high plains wheat mosaic and wheat streak mosaic viruses in sweet corn (Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research)
• Using non-gmo double stranded rna (dsrna) strategies to prevent aspergillus flavus infection and aflatoxin contamination in corn and peanut (Crop Genetics and Breeding Research)
• Tar spot of corn: characterizing the ecology and epidemiology of an understudied and high-profile disease (Crop Production and Pest Control Research)
• Establishing the infrastructure to develop prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (uky) (Crop Production and Protection)
• Establishing the infrastructure to develop prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (ohio) (Crop Production and Protection)
• Establishing the infrastructure to develop prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (iowa) (Crop Production and Protection)
• Establishing the infrastructure to develop prediction tools for diseases & mycotoxins affecting corn & cotton to better inform mgmt decisions (mi) (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions in indiana corn (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Improving prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (wi) (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn and mississippi cotton disease predictive tool development (Crop Production and Protection)
• Developing disease prediction tools in corn and cotton to optimize management plans (Crop Production and Protection)
• Establishing infrastructure to develop predictive tools for corn and wheat diseases (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn and cotton to better inform management decisions in louisiana (Crop Production and Protection)
• Establishing the infrastructure to develop prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Predicting nitrogen and sulfur deficiency in corn using optical sensors and weed mapping with uav multispectral sensors (Crop Production Systems Research)
• Horizon ii: a climate-smart future for corn, soybean, livestock, and renewable natural gas production (Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research)
• Risk assessment of emerging diseases caused by pantoea spp. on rice, peanut, & corn in the usa in collaboration with texas a&m university-beaumont (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center)
• Risk assessment of emerging diseases caused by pantoea spp. on rice, peanut, & corn in the usa in collaboration with texas a&m-amarillo (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center)
• Risk assessment of emerging diseases caused by pantoea spp. on rice, peanut, and corn in the usa in collaboration with colorado state university (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center)
• Risk assessment of emerging diseases caused by pantoea spp. on rice, peanut, and corn in the usa in collaboration with oklahoma state university (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center)
• First steps to creating weed tolerant corn (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Weed and Insect Biology Research Unit)
• Strengthening grapevine research collaborations between usda-ars and cornell university (Grape Genetics Research)
• Using genomics to mitigate the threat of the invasive asian longhorned tick, haemaphysalis longicornis, in the united states (Knipling-bushland U.s. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory: Veterinary Pest Genetics Research)
• Efficacy of commercial biocontrol saprophytes in reducing viability of tar spot pathogen in overwintered cornfield debris (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Crop Bioprotection Research)
• Rapid prediction and measurement of aflatoxin in whole kernel and ground corn using a portable imager (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research)
• Explore novel rna strategies using fungal endophyte to control mycotoxin contamination of corn (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research)
• Innovative food and feed safety research to eliminate mycotoxin contamination in corn and other crops (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research)
• Getting to the root of the corn yield drag following cover crops: a cereal rye residue manipulation experiment (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Agroecosystems Management Research)
• Assessing the effects of conservation practices on crop yield, water quality, and greenhouse gas emissions in the u.s. corn belt (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
• Field scale assessment of factors controlling corn and soybean production efficiency (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
• Interseeding cover crops into corn to extend the grazing season and improve soil health (Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research)
• Reducing maize grain nitrogen in support of cerca, the circular economy that re-imagines corn agriculture (Plant Genetics Research)
• Evaluation of methane reduction potential and forage quality on conventional and low-lignin variants of alfalfa and corn silage (Plant Science Research)
• Breeding and pathology for exotic temperate corn germplasm (Plant Science Research)
• On-farm preharvest mitigation and control of aflatoxin contamination of corn (Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research)
• Mitigation and control of aflatoxin contamination of corn (Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research)
• Cornell university & usda/ars-new york facilities: (holley center-ithaca, ny; grape genetics & plant genetic research units-geneva, ny) (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research)
• Collaborative animal research between cornell university and usda-ars (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research)
• Cerca - circular economy that reimagines corn agriculture (cerca: on-farm nitrogen recycling) (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research)
• Evaluation of corn ddgs in practical feeds of tilapia (Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research)
• Fy 2021 conservation effects assessment project (ceap)- assessing conservation practices in the ohio portion of the eastern corn belt (Soil Drainage Research)
• Identifying practices to reduce nutrient transport from crop production agriculture of the eastern corn belt (Soil Drainage Research)
• 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 (Southern Insect Management Research)
• Genetic drift in peripheral and source bollworm populations-cornell university (Southern Insect Management Research)
• Evaluate the role of volatile organic compounds (vocs) in plant-fungal interactions, especially corn-aspergillus interaction (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Corn-environment interactions and their impact and aflatoxin contamination in different geographical corn-growing regions of texas (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Development of aflatoxin resistant corn lines using omic technologies (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Aflatoxin control through identification of intrinsic and extrinsic factors governing the aspergillus flavus-corn interaction (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Genes and genetic networks underlying resistance to aspergillus flavus in corn (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Evaluating alfalfa bred for intercropping in a corn alfalfa intercropping system (U.s. Dairy Forage Research Center: Dairy Forage Research)
• Machinery traffic impacts on the alfalfa-corn intercropping system (U.s. Dairy Forage Research Center: Dairy Forage Research)
• Bringing interseeding of alfalfa into corn to the farm through on-farm research, demonstration, and outreach (U.s. Dairy Forage Research Center: Dairy Forage Research)