Find ARS Research Projects Search by Keyword International Subject of Investigation Air Alfalfa Almond Animal research, general Annual grasses, other Apple Apricot 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 North Broadleaf forests of the South Canola Carrot Cassava (or manioc) Castor Catfish Cheese Chemurgic Crops Cherry Citrus, general/other Climate Cocoa Coffee Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, 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 Crawfish Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species Cross-commodity research--multiple crops Cucumber Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd) Cultured aquatic animals, general/other Cuphea 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 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 Endangered species Farm structures and related facilities Feed and feed additives Fertilizers Filbert Finfish 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 Grasslands, other Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach) Guayule Hard red spring wheat Hard red winter wheat Hard white wheat 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 Medicinal crops, non-narcotic 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 Narcotic plants Nectarine Nematodes Noncrop plant research 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 cultured finfish Other cultured shellfish Other dairy cattle products Other Pollinators Other poultry products Other products of the forest Other swine products Oysters Papaya 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 Raisin grapes Rangelands and grasslands, general Rangelands, other Raspberry Red clover Remote sensing equipment and technology Research equipment and methods, general/other 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 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 The family and its members The farm as an enterprise Tilapia Tomato Trees, forests, and forest products, general Trefoil 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 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 grasses (includes annual ryegrass) Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover) Wood and wood products Wool fiber Vegetables, general/other A TRANS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO IMPROVING PRODUCE SAFETY A TRANS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO IMPROVING PRODUCE SAFETY AGREEMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION AGRICHEMICAL LEACHING FROM NURSERY CONTAINERS DURING WINTER MONTHS AREA-WIDE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PESTS ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID ATTRACTANTS AND REPELLENTS ASSESSMENT OF A MECHANICAL SAMPLING DEVICE FOR ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID ATTRACT AND KILL TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL CITRUS LEAFMINER IN CITRUS NURSERIES AND ORCHARDS BIOLOGICALLY BASED TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGEMENT OF VEGETABLE PESTS BIOLOGICALLY-BASED TECHNOLOGIES FOR MANAGEMENT OF CROP INSECT PESTS IN LOCAL AND AREAWIDE PROGRAMS BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH PROGRAM Characterization of Potential Feedstocks of Hawaii Island for Development of “Zero-Character” Biofuels CHARACTERIZING THE TRANSCRIPTOME OF ENDOPHYTIC TRICHODERMA ISOLATES CHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF THE MEXICAN BROMELIAD WEEVIL AND ITS PARASITOID, LIXADMONTIA FRANKI COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON THE CITRUS LEAFMINER, PHYLLOCNISTIS CITRELLA COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY SCREENING FOR PSYLLID DISRUPTION MOLECULES COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF THE DISEASE MECHANISMS UTILIZED BY VARIOUS PATHOGENS OF THEOBROMA CACAO CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE OF UV TECHNOLOGY COOPERATOR'S PROPOSAL FOR LSUROP SUMMER FUNDING CROP PROTECTION AND PRODUCTION STRATEGIES FOR HORTICULTURAL CROPS CUT-FLOWER LONGEVITY AMONG ACCESSIONS OF RUDBECKIA, PHLOX AND COREOPSIS IN THE NATIONAL PLANT GERMPLASM SYSTEM DEFINING CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS REQUIRED FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SCLEROTINIA STEM ROT IN CANOLA DEMONSTRATION OF NEW, EFFICIENT INFRARED DRYING AND BLANCHING TECHNOLOGIES FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES DETERMINING THE POTENTIAL FOR SILICON TO MITIGATE DROUGHT STRESS IN FLORICULTURAL CROPS USING SLAG AS A SILICON SOURCE DEV. OF A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING VIRAL WATERMELON VINE DECLINE & OTHER VEG. DISEASES CAUSED BY WHITEFLY-TRANSMITTED VIRUSES DEVELOP MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR EARLY STRESS DETECTION AND EFFICIENT AGROCHEMICAL UTILIZATION FOR PROTECTED HORTICULTURE CROPS DEVELOPING PROCESSING INTERVENTION TECHNOLOGIES Development of a Collodial Artificial Diet Based Mass Production System for Lygus lineolaris and Lygus hesperus DEVELOPMENT OF CANOLA BREEDING POPULATIONS AND IDENTIFICATION OF HERBICIDE-TOLERANT BREEDING LINES WITH RESISTANCE TO S. SCLEROTIORUM DEVELOPMENT OF CDNA MICROARRAYS FOR GENE EXPRESSION RESEARCH IN FLORICULTURAL CROPS DEVELOPMENT OF GENETIC APPROACHES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF SELECTED CROPS GROWN IN HAWAII DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH QUALITY, COST-EFFECTIVE, MASS-REARED BIOCONTROL AGENTS FOR SMALL AND URBAN FARMS, ORGANIC FARMS AND GREENHOUSES DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PROCESSING METHODS FOR PRODUCING HEALTHY FRENCH FRIES DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING QUALITY AND SAFETY OF PROCESSED FRUITS, VEGETABLES, NUTS, RICE, & FISH BY-PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT OF TRICHODERMA FORMULATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF CACAO DISEASES DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRASONIC PROCESSES TO IMPROVE PATHOGEN INACTIVATION DEVELOPMENT OF VIRUS-RESISTANT PLANTS USING TRANSGENIC PLANT TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PLANT PATHOGENS FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF INVASIVE WEEDS FROM THEIR NATIVE RANGE EICOSANOID-MEDIATED AND MOLECULAR IMMUNE SIGNALING INHIBITORS IN PIERCING/SUCKING INSECT PESTS OF SMALL AND URBAN VEGETABLE FARMS Enhanced Implementation of Integrated Management Tactics for Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus in the SouthEastern USA EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF FRESH-CUT PRODUCE WASH OPERATION ON FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY EXAMINATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING VIRUS DISEASE IN FLORICULTURE CROPS FEEDING STUDIES AND ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL NON-TARGET EFFECTS ON THE BENEFICIAL LADY BEETLE COLEOMEGILLA MACULATA FEMALE-SPECIFIC EMBRYONIC LETHALITY STRAINS FOR THE MEXICAN FRUIT FLY, ANASTREPHA LUDENS FIELD TESTING OF MINOR USE PESTICIDES FLORICULTURE GERMPLASM ENHANCEMENT: USING GENETIC ENGINEERING TO IMPROVE POSTPRODUCTION QUALITY FORMULATIONS FOR 2 MODEL PREDATORS: A POLLEN FEEDING PHYTOSEIID MITE AND ORIUS INSIDIOSUS FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND MANIPULATION OF ANTIOXIDANT GENE EXPRESSION FOR IMPROVED FITNESS IN MALES STERILIZED FOR STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE GENE FLOW BY HYLES LINEATA GENETIC EXCHANGE AND GENE FLOW RISKS FROM PLANTS IN AGRICULTURE GENETIC VARIABILITY OF DOMESTICATED AND NATURAL SPINED SOLDIER BUGS GENETIC VARIATION AND VIRULENCE OF S. SCLEROTIORUM IN THE UNITED STATES GENOMES OF FUNGAL PATHOGENS AND CACAO DEFENSE RESPONSES GENOMES OF FUNGAL PATHOGENS AND DISEASE CONTROL GENOMIC CHARACTERIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF FUNGAL DISEASES OF CACAO HERBICIDE EFFICACY STUDIES IN ORNAMENTAL AND VEGETABLE CROPS IDENTIFICATION OF QTL FOR WHITE MOLD RESISTANCE IN PINTO BEAN IDENTIFICATION OF RESISTANCE AND PATHOGENICITY GENES ASSOCIATED WITH SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM INFECTION USING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON BEMISIA TABACI AND ITS NATURAL ENEMIES IN VEGETABLE CROPS IMPROVING FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY OF FRESH AND FRESH-CUT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IMPROVING LEAFY GREEN SAFETY VIA RESEARCH AND EXTENSION INACTIVATION OF ENTERIC FOODBORNE VIRUSES IN HIGH RISK FOODS BY NON-THERMAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES Infrared heating for improved drying efficiency and quality of almonds and pistachios INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION FOR FOOD SAFETY RISK REDUCTION ASSOCIATED WITH FRESH AND FRESH-CUT LEAFY GREEN VEGETABLES INNOVATIVE ULTRAVIOLET-B PROCESSING TO ENHANCE HEALTH PROMOTING BIOACTIVE COMPONENTS IN SPECIALTY CROPS INSECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR URBAN SMALL FARMS AND GARDENS INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROCESS AND PACKAGE TECHNOLOGIES INTERVENTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR MINIMALLY PROCESSED FOODS INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT TEMPLATE DEVELOPMENT WITH AN INITIAL EMPHASIS ON THRIPS ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF SEMIOCHEMICALS IN SUPPORT OF THE DETECTION AND BIOCONTROL OF EMERALD ASH BORER, AGRILUS PLANIPENNIS MAGNITUDE OF THE RESIDUE ANALYSES IN MINOR CROPS FROM EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF PESTICIDES Management of Tropical/Subtropical Plant Genetic Resources and Associated Information MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES: COVER CROPS, AMENDMENTS, AND INTERNAL MOLECULAR TARGETS MASS PRODUCTION OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS MEASUREMENT AND MODELING OF SEASONAL PLANT WATER AND NUTRIENT USE TO DETERMINE OPTIMAL RATES FOR NURSERY PRODUCTION -WILLOWAY NURSERY METABOLOMIC PROFILES ASSOCIATED WITH RESISTANCE TO SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM IN DRY EDIBLE BEANS MINIMIZING PATHOGEN TRANSFERENCE DURING LETTUCE HARVESTING BY OPTIMIZING THE DESIGN OF THE HARVESTING DEVICE AND OPERATION PRACTICES MINOR USE PESTICIDE TESTING ON VEGETABLES AND SUGAR CROPS MINOR USE PESTICIDE-FOOD/ORNAMENTALS MINOR USE PESTICIDES UMBRELLA PROJECT MINOR USE WEED MANAGEMENT MOLECULAR GENETICS OF ETHYLENE BIOSYNTHESIS MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF PATHOGENIC BACTERIA INTERACTIONS WITH PLANT SURFACES AND ENVIRONMENTAL MATRICES Molecular Resources for the Improvement of Tropical Ornamental and Fruit Crops MONITORING THE SEED HEALTH IN CONVENTIONAL LONG-TERM EX SITU STORAGE MONITORING TOOLS FOR THE DETECTION OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL PARASITOIDS OF THE EMERALD ASH BORER NEMATODE, DISEASE, WEED, INSECT AND MITE CONTROL ON MINOR FOOD CROPS AND ORNAMENTALS NEW SUSTAINABLE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES TO PRODUCE HEALTHY, VALUE-ADDED FOODS FROM SPECIALTY CROPS AND THEIR CO-PRODUCTS NOVEL APPROACH FOR DECONTAMINATING FRESH AND FRESH-CUT PRODUCE UTILIZING CHLORINE DIOXIDE GAS PACKAGING SYSTEM NOVEL BIOMARKERS THAT RAPIDLY IDENTIFY INSECT POPULATIONS THAT ARE EFFICIENT VECTORS OF CIRCULATIVE PLANT VIRUSES NOVEL DISEASE CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR CELLULAR AND SUB-CELLULAR PATHOGENS OPTIMIZATION OF THE NUTRITIONAL, FUNCTIONAL, AND SENSORY PROPERTIES OF RAW AND PROCESSED LEGUMES, GRAINS, AND SPECIALTY CROPS Pacific Fruit Genetic Resource Management and Sustainable Production Systems Pacific Tropical/Subtropical Fruit and Nut Genetic Resource Management and Sustainable Production Systems PREDICTIVE MODELING & MITIGATION OF EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON MIGRATION & INFESTATION PATTERNS OF SEMITROPICAL/TROPICAL CROP PEST INSECTS PRESERVATION AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD PRODUCTS PROTOCOL BETWEEN ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIV. AND THE USDA/ARS/FDWSRU ON BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF WEEDS WITH PLANT PATHOGENS QUALITY ASSURANCE SERVICES AND SUPPORT FOR IR-4 MINOR USE PESTICIDES AT STATE FACILITIES IN NEW JERSEY AND SIMILAR LOCATIONS REARING STINK BUGS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR SELECTED STINK BUG CROP PESTS RECOMBINASE-BASED TRANSFORMATION VECTORS FOR IMPROVED TRANSGENIC STRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND ECOLOGICAL SAFETY IN TEPHRITID PEST SPECIES REPELLENTS AND ATTRACTANTS FOR ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF MINOR USE PESTICIDES Resource Assessment Framework for Dependable Feedstock Supply to Produce Advance Biofuels in Hawaii and Western United States (2012) SCLEROTINIA INITIATIVE SPEEDY EVALUATION OF CITRUS GERMPLASM FOR PSYLLID RESISTANCE Strategies to Improve Soil and Pest Management in Organic Vegetable Production Systems SUBTROPICAL INSECT PESTS OF VEGETABLES AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS SUSTAINABLE GIANT TARO PRODUCTION UNDER HIGH SALINITY IN THE PACIFIC TARGETING THE ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID (ASCP) FEEDING MECHANSIM AS A MEANS OF BLOCKING PSYLLLID FEEDING ON CITRUS The Adaptive Potential of an Introduced Symbiosis: Megacopta Cribraria and Its Bacteria TRANSITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO FACILITATE THE ADOPTION OF ALT. TO METHYL BROMIDE IN THE PRODUCTION OF LOBLOLLY PINE SEEDLINGS IN THE SOUTHERN US UHH-COLLABORATIVE EFFORT FOR EVALUATING REGIONALLY BASED FEEDSTOCK AND CO-PRODUCTS FOR AQUACULTURE AND LIVESTOCK UHM-COLLABORATIVE EFFORT FOR EVALUATING REGIONALLY BASED FEEDSTOCK AND CO-PRODUCTS FOR AQUACULTURE AND LIVESTOCK VASCULAR STREAK DIEBACK AND OTHER DISEASES OF CACAO IN INDONESIA VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN THE SOUTHEAST: PROMOTING CONSERVATION TILLAGE SYSTEMS TO INCREASE YIELDS, PROFITABILITY, AND IMPROVE SOIL QUALITY WHITE MOLD RESISTANCE-QTL: IDENTIFICATION, INTERACTIONS, AND FINE MAPPING IN COMMON BEAN WHITE MOLD RESISTANCE-QTL: IDENTIFICATION, INTERACTIONS, AND FINE MAPPING IN COMMON BEAN         Last Modified: 05/22/2013