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Research Projects Subjects of Investigation at this Location

Each ARS research project has related subjects of investigation.  Listed below are the subjects of investigation currently conducted at this location.

Clicking on a subject of investigation will list the research projects within that  subject of investigation.
Subjects of Investigation
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
Canola
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Coffee
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Dairy cattle, live animal
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Fertilizers
Finfish
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
General Commodity
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Other animals, general
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other swine products
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peanut
Peas (dry)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Potato
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Rice
River basins
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Sugar beet
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Wildlife habitats
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Research Projects within Upland cotton
item Advancement of Cotton Genetic Resources Through Use of a Costa Rican Counter Season Nursery
item Agricultural Research Projects Conducted at the Cropping Systems Research Laboratory and Texas Tech University
item Climate Adaptation and Sustainability in Switchgrass: Exploring Plant-microbe-soil Interactions Across Continental Scale Environmental Gradients
item Continued Development of a Publicly Accessible Comprehensive Cotton Database
item Continued Development of a Publicly Accessible Comprehensive Cotton Database
item Contributions of Climate, Soils, Species Diversity, and Management to Sustainable Crop, Grassland, and Livestock Production Systems
item Detecting Precursors to Combustion for Cotton Coproducts to Improve Storage and Mitigate Fires
item Developing Genome Editing Resources for Modifying Genes to Improve Priority Traits in Cotton
item Developing Strategies for Resilient and Sustainable Crop, Water, and Soil Management in Semi-Arid Environments
item Development of Climate Resilient Germplasm and Management Tools for Sustainable Row Crop Production
item Ecological Genomics in Switchgrass
item Enhancing the Profitability and Sustainability of Upland Cotton, Cottonseed, and Agricultural Byproducts through Improvements in Pre-Ginning, Ginning, and Post-Ginning Processes
item Evaluation of Round Module Moisture Content Effects on Cotton Quality
item Exploiting Genetic Variation of Australian and African Diploid Accessions for American Tetraploid Cotton
item Exploring the Genetics of Drought Resistance with Field-based Phenomics and Biophysical Process-based Modeling
item Improving Sustainability of Low-input Cropping Systems
item Improving the Production and Processing of Western and Long-Staple Cotton and Companion Crops to Enhance Quality, Value, and Sustainability
item Influence of Soil Microbiota and Entomopathogenic Nematodes on Cotton Defensive Chemical Production
item Investigation of Population Shifts of Fusarium Wilt and Pathogen Infection Assessment for Maintaining Sustainable Cotton Production
item Maintenance, Distribution, and Utilization of Cotton Genetic Resources
item Management of Cotton Genetic Resources and Genetic Improvement of Cotton
item Molecular and Genetic Approaches to Manage Cotton and Sorghum Diseases
item Novel Approaches for Management of Row Crop Pests and Continued Boll Weevil Eradication
item Nutrient Limitation and Disturbance in C4 Grasslands
item Partners in Crime: Pathobiome of Fusarium Cotton Wilt Pathogen
item Pheromone Components of the Pecan Weevil
item Pre-cleaning System Design and Evaluation for Whole-plant Harvested Cotton for Improved Logistics and Residue Utilization
item Producing Upland and Pima Seed Cotton for ARS Research Studies
item Renewal and Advance of Cotton Genetic Resources Through Use of a Costa Rican Counter Season Nursery
item Science Curricula Through Education, Development and Outreach Programs
item Survey of Cotton Contamination at the Gin Stand Feeder Apron in Multiple Commercial Cotton Gins
item Technologies to Protect and Manage Seed Cotton in Modules
item Testing and Development of Competitive High Quality Upland Cotton through Enhanced Ginning/Textile Processing Performance