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 Bedding/garden plants ALTERNATIVES TO FUMIGATING GREENHOUSES FOR CONTROL OF SOILBORNE PLANT PATHOGENS Analysis of Genetic Variation in P. Ramorum ANTIBIOTICS AND THEIR BIOSYNTHETIC INTERMEDIATES: INTER-CELLULAR CHEMICAL MESSENGERS MEDIATING GENOME-WIDE TRANSCRIPTIONAL EFFECTS IN SOIL ANTIBIOTICS AND THEIR BIOSYNTHETIC INTERMEDIATES:INTER-CELLULAR MESSENGERS MEDIATING GENOME-WIDE TRANSCRIPTIONAL EFFECTS IN SOIL BACTERIA Automated Mesoscale Pest Risk Forecast Maps for Agricultural Production and Potential Plant Biosecurity threats BACTERIAL WILT HOST RELATIONSHIPS BIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF RALSTONIA SOLANCEARUM RACE 3 ON GERANIUM BIOMONITORING OF NUTRITIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS IN PLANTS CUT-FLOWER LONGEVITY AMONG ACCESSIONS OF RUDBECKIA, PHLOX AND COREOPSIS IN THE NATIONAL PLANT GERMPLASM SYSTEM Detection and Identification of Soil-borne Plant Pathogens and Mitigation of Soil-borne Diseases DETERMINING THE POTENTIAL FOR SILICON TO MITIGATE DROUGHT STRESS IN FLORICULTURAL CROPS USING SLAG AS A SILICON SOURCE DEVELOP MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR EARLY STRESS DETECTION AND EFFICIENT AGROCHEMICAL UTILIZATION FOR PROTECTED HORTICULTURE CROPS DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGEMENT OF PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM ON RHODODENDRON IN NURSERY SETTINGS DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A UNIVERSAL PLANT VIRUS MICROARRAY FOR DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF PLANT VIRUSES DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD FOR STABILIZATION OF PH IN CONTAINER SUBSTRATE DURING CROP PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVE SUBSTRATES FOR CONTAINER NURSERY CROPS EARLY DETECTION OF PYTHIUM STRESS IN FLORICULTURE CROPS USING MINIMALLY INVASIVE TECHNIQUES EFFICACY OF A SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR PRODUCING NURSERY STOCK FREE OF PLANT PATHOGENIC PHYTOPHTHORA SPECIES EFFICACY OF BIOCONTROL AGENTS APPLIED TO BARE-ROOT CONIFER SEEDLINGS GROWN UNDER MINIMAL BUFFER ZONE RATES OF SOIL FUMIGATION Epidemiological Framework Development for Management of Phytophthora Ramorum in Nursery Systems EXAMINATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING VIRUS DISEASE IN FLORICULTURE CROPS EXOTIC AND EMERGING PLANT DISEASES OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS FLORICULTURE GERMPLASM ENHANCEMENT: USING GENETIC ENGINEERING TO IMPROVE POSTPRODUCTION QUALITY Genome-wide functional analysis of Phytophthora small RNAS Genome-wide Profiling and Analysis of Phytophthora Small RNAS GENOMIC AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF FUNGAL PLANT PATHOGENS GENOMICS BASED DISCOVERY OF NOVEL TRAITS IN BENEFICIAL PLANT-ASSOCIATED PSEUDOMONAS SPECIES HIGH THROUGHPUT CHARACTERIZATION OF BEGONIA SPECIES FOR LOWER TEMPERATURE PRODUCTION HOST RANGE DETERMINATION OF POWELL BUTTE GLOBODERA (PBG) IMPROVED DEVELOPMENT OF RHODOCOCCUS FASCIANS AND AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS IN HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS IMPROVED PATHOGEN DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF BULB DISEASES IMPROVED PRODUCTION METHODS: NORTH SOUTH INITIATIVE (CLEMSON UNIVERSITY) IMPROVED PRODUCTION METHODS: NORTH SOUTH INITIATIVE (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY) IMPROVED PRODUCTION METHODS: NORTH SOUTH INITIATIVE (NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY) IMPROVED PRODUCTION METHODS: NORTH SOUTH INITIATIVE (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA) IMPROVED PRODUCTION METHODS: NORTH SOUTH INITIATIVE (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA) INTERACTIONS BETWEEN AMBROSIA BEETLES AND THEIR FUNGAL SYMBIONTS IPM-BASED STRATEGIES FOR INCORPORATING MICROBIAL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL FOR MANAGEMENT OF GREENHOUSE AND NURSERY CROP PESTS NEW AND EMERGING VIRAL AND BACTERIAL DISEASES OF ORNAMENTAL PLANTS: DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION POPULATION DIVERSITY OF PYTHIUM IRREGULARE, P. SYLVATICUM, AND P. ULTIMUM POPULATION STRUCTURE OF THE SUDDEN OAK DEATH PATHOGEN PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM IN NORTH AMERICA Reducing Losses to Potato and Tomato Late Blight by Enhanced Monitoring of Pathogen Populations and Improved Resistant Plants, and Education         Last Modified: 05/23/2013