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 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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 Grapefruit Acquisition and Evaluation of Citrus and Citrus Relatives in the Citrus Variety Collection Alternatives to Methyl Bromide: Mitigation of the Threat from Exotic Tropical and Subtropical Insect Pests AN ASSESSMENT OF THE VIABILITY OF BLACK SPOT-BLEMISHED CITRUS FRUIT AS A PATHWAY FOR DISEASE DISPERSAL VIA DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE An Assessment of the Viability of Black Spot-Blemished Citrus Fruit as a Pathway for Disease Dispersal via Domestic and International Trade ANALYSIS OF THE COLONIZATION OF CITRUS SEED COATS BY THE CAUSAL AGENT OF CITRUS HUANGLONGBING 'CA. LIBERIBACTER ASIATICUS' Analyzing Liberibacter Isolates Undetectable by Standard Diagnostic Methods in Florida ANALYZING LIBERIBACTER ISOLATES UNDETECTABLE BY STANDARD DIAGNOSTIC METHODS IN FLORIDA ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE EVALUATION FOR HUANGLONGBING, CANKER AND PSYLLID RESISTANCE APPLICATION OF AN AGGREGATION PHEROMONE FOR MANAGEMENT OF THE DIAPREPES ROOT WEEVIL Areawide Pest Management of Fruit Flies in Hawaii 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 BIOACTIVE CONSTITUENTS AND SPECIALTY FOOD FIBERS AS VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS FROM CITRUS PROCESSING WASTE CHARACTERIZATION OF A PUTATIVE INSECT-TRANSMISSION DETERMINANT/VIRULENCE GENE (HYPL) OF ‘CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER ASIATICUS’ CHARACTERIZATION, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES OF CITRUS TRISTEZA VIRUS AND SPIROPLASMA CITRI ON CITRUS IN CALIFORNIA CHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF THE MEXICAN BROMELIAD WEEVIL AND ITS PARASITOID, LIXADMONTIA FRANKI COLLABORATION WITH FUJIAN ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURE SCIENCE (CHINA) TO FACILITATE HLB RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN THE AREAS OF FOOD SAFETY AND FUNCTION FOOD DEVELOPMENT BASED ON DAIRY AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON THE CITRUS LEAFMINER, PHYLLOCNISTIS CITRELLA COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON TRANSMISSION OF INSECT-VECTORED VEGETABLE VIRUSES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON TRANSMISSION OF THRIPS-VECTORED VEGETABLE VIRUSES COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY SCREENING FOR PSYLLID DISRUPTION MOLECULES COMPARISON OF CTV-INDUCED SIRNAS IN SOUR ORANGE AND GRAPEFRUIT INFECTED WITH MILD AND SEVERE STRAINS OF CTV Control citrus HLB by blocking the functions of two critical effectors encoded by 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' DEEP SEQUENCING OF DIAPHORINA CITRI DETERMINATION OF ATTRACTIVE HOST PLANT VOLATILES AND SEX PHEROMONES OF ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID USING EAGS AND GC-EAD DETERMINATION OF CANKER SURVIVAL AND TRANSMISSION VIA CANKER-BLEMISHED FRUIT RELATIVE TO INTERNATIONAL MARKET ACCESS DETERMINING HOST AND GEOGRPAHIC RANGES OF GROUNDNUT RINGSPOT VIRUS IN US TOMATOES AND DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR ITS CONTROL Develop high throughput extraction procedures for RNA and DNA citrus pathogen targets for multiplex MOL-PCR assays DEVELOPING A PHLOEM PENETRATION/ANTIMICROBIAL TREATMENT TO REDUCE/ELIMATE CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER FROM EXISTING CITRUS TREES DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR CITRUS HUANGLONGBING (GREENING)- PHASE II DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR CITRUS HUANGLONGBING (GREENING)-PHASE II DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERIC MULTIPLE-PEST MODEL & USER-FRIENDLY FRONT END TO TEST CNTRL STRATIES & EST NECESSARY RESOURCES FOR HIGH-RISK PATHOG Development of a TaqMan Array Card for Multiplex Detection of Citrus Pathogens by Real-Time PCR DEVELOPMENT OF ACTIVE PACKAGING MATERIALS, PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES, AND PRESERVATIVE METHODS FOR FOOD SAFETY AND PRESERVATION DEVELOPMENT OF CDNA MICROARRAYS FOR GENE EXPRESSION RESEARCH IN FLORICULTURAL CROPS Development of Cryotherapy as an Improved Method of Eliminating Graft Transmissible Pathogens in Citrus DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED TRAPPING SYSTEMS FOR INVASIVE FRUIT FLIES THAT THREATEN U.S. AGRICULTURE Development of New Technologies to Eliminate Huanglongbing from Budwood Source Trees DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL INSECT CONTROL STRATEGIES BASED ON RNAI AND INSECT DETERRENT PROTEINS FOR INSECT PESTS OF CITRUS DEVELOPMENT OF PROMISING NEW SCIONS FOR FLORIDA CITRUS: EXPLOITING HUANGLONGBING (HLB) RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE Development of promising supersour and other rootstocks resistant to HLB (Huanglongbing) DEVELOPMENT OF PROMISING SUPERSOUR AND OTHER ROOTSTOCKS RESISTANT TO HUANGLONGBING Development of promising supersour and other rootstocks resistant to huanglonging (HLB) DEVELOPMENT OF RAPID AND ACCURATE DETECTION OF REGULATED CITRUS PATHOGENS DEVELOPMENT OF STOCHASTIC MODELS TO DESCRIBE AND PREDICT THE INCREASE AND SPREAD OF HUANGLONGBING DISSECTING THE DISEASE COMPLEX OF CITRUS HUANGLONGBING (HLB) DISSECTING THE DISEASE COMPLEX OF CITRUS HUANGLONGBING IN FLORIDA DOORYARD FRUIT CROPS FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CITRUS TO REDUCE REFUGE FOR ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID EARLY DETECTION STOCHASTIC MODELING AND THE DESIGN OF SURVEY METHODOLOGIES AND RESOURCE ESTIMATORS FOR HIGH-RISK PATHOGENS EFFICACY OF CITRUS CANKER CONTROL STRATEGIES, LEAFMINER INTERACTIONS, AND BACTERIAL SURVIVAL EMERGING DISEASES OF CITRUS, VEGETABLES, AND ORNAMENTALS EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DISEASE CONTROL OF HLB EVALUATION OF HLB/ACP RESISTANCE IN PONCIRUS TRIFOLIATA HYBRIDS AND ASSESSMENT OF DNA MARKERS AND POSSIBLE RESISTANCE GENES EVALUATION OF MYB1A GENE EXPRESSION IN CITRUS EXPLORING AVOCADO VARIABILITY FOR LAUREL WILT RESISTANCE AND OTHER FRUIT QUALITY AND HORTICULTURAL TRAITS FOR PRODUCTION IN EAST-CENTRAL FL FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY, APPLICATION OF NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES & UTILIZATION OF WASTE POMACE FROM FRUIT & VEGETABLE PROCESSING - COLLABORATIVE RES FOUNDER LINES FOR IMPROVED CITRUS BIOTECHNOLOGY GENE EXPRESSION IN CITRUS PHLOEM IN RESPONSE TO EXOTIC CITRUS PATHOGENS GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF CITRUS GENOME SEQUENCING AND COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF THE ZEBRA CHIP DISEASE BACTERIA GENOME SEQUENCING AND COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF THE ZEBRA CHIP DISEASE BACTERIA GROUNDNUT RINGSPOT VIRUS, AN EMERGING THRIPS-TRANSMITTED VIRUS INFECTING FLORIDA TOMATO, PEPPER AND OTHER SPECIALTY CROPS HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING OF TRANSGENIC CITRUS FOR HUANGLUNGBING (HLB) RESISTANCE HLB RESISTANCE THROGUH TRANSGENIC EXPRESSION OF SHORT CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODIES AGAINST KEY LIBERIBACTER EPITOPES HLB RESISTANCE THROUGH TRANSGENIC EXPRESSION OF SHORT CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODIES AGAINST KEY LIBERIBACTER EPITOPES Identification and characterization of HLB-induced small RNAs and mRNAs-towards the understanding of natural defense mechanisms against HLB Implementation of a smartphone-and web-based decision support system for managing insect-vectored diseases of vegetables and grapes Implementation of a smartphone-and web-based decision support system for managing insect-vectored diseases of vegetables and grapes Improvement of Diagnosis of Graft Transmissible Pathogens of Citrus INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO ADVANCE CITRUS DISEASE RESEARCH & PRODUCT DVLPMT TO ENSURE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE NATL CITRUS INDUSTRY INVASIVE PATHOGENS OF CITRUS INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT TEMPLATE DEVELOPMENT WITH AN INITIAL EMPHASIS ON THRIPS INVESTIGATING MECHANISMS OF PATHOGENESIS AND NATURAL DEFENSE RESPONSES OF CITRUS GREENING (HLB) BY CHARACTERIZING HOST SMALL RNAS AND MRNAS INVESTIGATION OF SEEDLING YELLOWS CROSS PROTECTION BY MILD COMPONENTS OF DEKOPON CITRUS TRISTEZA VIRUS STRAIN IPM TECHNOLOGIES FOR INSECT PESTS OF ORCHARD CROPS Management and Characterization of Citrus and Date Genetic Resources and Associated Information MANAGEMENT OF CITRUS AND DATE GENETIC RESOURCES AND INFORMATION Mini-Plant Indexing: Development of Protocols to use Very Young Plants for Biological Indexing NEW BIOACTIVE AND BIOBASED PRODUCTS FROM PLANT CELL WALL POLYSACCHARIDES IN SUGAR BEET PULP, CITRUS PEEL AND OTHER ... PROCESSING RESIDUES NFCA BETWEEN USDA-ARS AND UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, IFAS AND FAES PATHOGENS OF INVASIVE INSECTS PRODUCTION OF TRANSGENIC COMMERCIAL SCION CULTIVARS RESISTANT TO HLB AND CANKER: CONTINUED AMP APPROACHES AND NOVEL TRANSGENIC STRATEGIES Rear and Release of Psyllids as Biological Control Agents: A Mid-term Solution for Huanglongbing (HLB) Disease of Citrus Rear and Release Psyllids as Biological Control Agents-An Economical and Feasible Mid-Term Solution for Huanglongbing (HLB) Disease Regional Implementation and Validation of a Smartphone- and Web-Based Scouting and Decision Support System Regional Implementation and Validation of a Smartphone- and Web-Based Scouting and Decision Support System Regional Implementation and Validation of a Smartphone- and Web-Based Scouting and Decision Support System REPELLENTS AND ATTRACTANTS FOR ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CITRUS HUANGLONGBING AND OTHER EXOTIC PATHOGENS SCREENING AND CLONING OF RESISTANCE RELATED GENES BY RNA-SEQ IN HUANGLONGBING (HLB) RESISTANT AND SUSCEPTIBLE CITRUS BREEDING LINES Screening and Cloning of Resistance Relates Genes by RNA-SEQ in Huanglongbing (HLB) Resistant and Susceptible Citrus Breeding Lines SECURE SITE FOR TESTING TRANSGENIC AND CONVENTIONAL CITRUS FOR HLB AND PSYLLID RESISTANCE SEMIOCHEMICAL-BASED TECHNOLOGY FOR CONTROL OF CITRUS PESTS SEMIOCHEMICALS FOR CONTROL OF CITRUS LEAFMINER AND CITRUS CANKER DISEASE WITH APPLICATION FOR CONTROL OF ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID AND HLB SPEEDY EVALUATION OF CITRUS GERMPLASM FOR PSYLLID RESISTANCE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING VIRAL WATERMELON VINE DECLINE & OTHER VEG. DISEASES CAUSED BY WHITEFLY-TRANSMITTED VIRUSES TARGETING THE ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID (ASCP) FEEDING MECHANSIM AS A MEANS OF BLOCKING PSYLLLID FEEDING ON CITRUS TRANSMISSION OF XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA TO SWEET ORANGE SEEDLINGS THROUGH INFECTED SEED USDA-ARS CITRUS BREEDING TRUST WITH NEW VARIETIES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT CORPORATION Use of Molecular Markers to Determine Genetic Relationships of Citrus and Citrus Relatives VISUALIZATION AND DETECTION OF PROTEINS PRODUCED BY ‘CA. LIBERIBACTER ASIATICUS’ IN INFECTED SWEET ORANGE PLANTS AND VECTOR PSYLLIDS         Last Modified: 06/19/2013