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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.

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Subjects of Investigation
Agave
Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Canola
Carrot
Climate
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cranberry
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Dairy cattle, general/other
Dairy cattle, live animal
Domestic and community water supply facilities and systems
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Durum wheat
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Finfish
Fish habitats
Florist crops, other
Forage legumes, other
Fungi (includes yeast)
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Ground covers
Guayule
Gums
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hemp
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Lentil
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Nematodes
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Onion, garlic, leek, shallot
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other dairy cattle products
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Peas (dry)
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry, general/other
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Red clover
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Rice
Rye
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Soybean
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Sugar crops, general/other
Sunflower
Sweet potato
Sweet sorghum
Sweetcorn
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
The farm as an enterprise
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
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
Wood and wood products
Research Projects within Barley
item Advancing Sustainable Technologies to Improve End-Use Quality of Underutilized and Climate-Resilient Food Crops for Value-Added Food and Consumer Products
item Ag-Discovery Summer Enrichment Program (2024)
item Agreement Regarding Mutual Understanding of Requirements for Cooperator Employees to Ride In or Operate Government-Owned Vehicles
item Alfalfa Seed Utilization for Human Food
item Barley Yield, Grain Quality, and Metabolome Response to Sulfur Fertilization Rate and Product
item Corn Mycotoxin Mitigation Initiative
item Corn Mycotoxin Mitigation Initiative
item Deciphering and Improving Cereal Resistance to Rust Diseases Using Genome Editing Tools
item Determining the Roles of Fusarium Effector Proteases in Plant Pathogenesis
item Developing More Durable Wheat Rust Resistant Germplasm
item Developing New Technologies for Improving Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight
item Developing New Technologies for Improving Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight (2025)
item Developing Tools for Genotype Independent Transformation and Gene-Editing in Cereals
item Development of Barley Germplasm with Multiple Disease Resistance
item Development of Barley Germplasm with Multiple Disease Resistance
item Development of Genomic Tool for Cereal Crop Improvement
item Elucidating Transkingdom Microbial Community Assembly in the Barley Phyllosphere During Fusarium Infection
item Enhance Wheat Germplasm through Characterizing, Introgressing, and Engineering Stem Rust Resistance
item Enhancement of Cereal Grain Quality, Processing, and Evaluation for Malting, Brewing, and Distilling
item Enhancing Barley Resiliency through Genetic Improvement of Preharvest Sprout Tolerance, Malting Efficiency, and Malt Quality
item Explore Novel RNA Strategies Using Fungal Endophyte to Control Mycotoxin Contamination of Corn
item Functional Genomic Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interaction in Cereal Rust Fungi
item Fungal Host-Pathogen Interactions and Disease Resistance in Cereal Crops
item Fungal Host-pathogen Interactions, Phylogeography and Microbiomes of Cereal Diseases
item Genetic Transformation of Cereal Crops
item Genomic of Host and Host-Pathogen Interaction in Cereal Rust Fungi
item Harnessing Multi-omics for Augmenting Seed Quality and Stress Tolerance in Barley
item Improvement of Oat Germplasm for Resistance/Tolerance to Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Utilizing Marker-Assisted-Selection Breeding
item Improvement of Oat Germplasm for Resistance/Tolerance to Yellow Dwarf Viruses
item Improving Food Safety by Controlling Mycotoxin Contamination and Enhancing Climate Resilience of Wheat and Barley
item Institutional Biological Safety Committee (IBC) Agreement - Purdue University
item Microbiome and Resistome Response to Foliar Antibiotic Application in Commercial Citrus Production
item Molecular Characterization of Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
item Monitoring and Characterizing Cereal Rust Pathogens and Their Host Resistance
item Monitoring Cereal Rust Development on Alternate Hosts
item Monitoring Incursion of Wheat Stem Rust of Foreign Origin
item Multi-modal Prediction and Cross-scale Monitoring of Wheat Rust Disease at the Field Level
item Plant-Fungal Interactions and Host Resistance in Fusarium Head Blight of Barley and Wheat
item Regulatory Networks in Cereal Host-Fungal Pathogen Interactions
item Silflower Seed Utilization for High-Value Applications
item Surveillance and Analysis of Stem Rust on Hybrid and Parental Barberries
item Surveillance, Pathogen Biology, and Host Resistance of Cereal Rusts
item Ug99 Surveillance Through California Sentinel Plots
item Ug99 Surveillance Through Sentinel Plots