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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
Air
Almond
Animal research, general
Aquatic plants
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Blueberry
Broadleaf forests of the South
Catfish
Chemurgic Crops
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Dairy cattle, live animal
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Duck and goose, live animal
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Eggplant
Eggs
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Finfish
Fish habitats
Forage legumes, other
Fungi (includes yeast)
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grapefruit
Grapes, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red winter wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Kenaf
Laboratory animals
Leguminous vegetables, other
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Nectarine
Noncrop plant research
Nonfarm structures and related facilities, including those used in
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other cultured finfish
Other poultry products
Oysters
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pecan
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Poultry, general/other
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research on research management (not research management per se)
Rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, and root crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Rice
River basins
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Soybean
Strawberry
Striped bass
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sweet potato
Sweet sorghum
Sweetcorn
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
The farm as an enterprise
Tilapia
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
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 habitats
Wine grapes
Research Projects within Upland cotton
item Achieving Low N2O and CH4 Missions in Non-Flooded Rice Through Effective N Management Tools
item Advancing Cotton Genetics and Innovative Cropping Systems for Improved Quality and Production
item Agri-Eye: Embedding Agricultural Intelligence in UAV-based Frameworks for Monitoring Crops
item Agronomic and Engineering Solutions for Conventional and Organic Conservation Agricultural Systems in the Southeastern U.S.
item Assessing Micro-nutrients Applications for Efficient Soybean Production in the Mississippi Delta
item Assessing Multiple Benefits of Silcate Rock Dust Applications in Paddy Rice Under AWD Irrigation
item Assessing the Impact of Biotic and Abiotic Stressors on Reniform Nematode Populations in the Mississippi Cotton Production System
item Biologically-based Management Systems for Insect Pests and Pollinators in Agricultural Landscapes in the Southeastern Region
item Characterization and Introgression of Nematode Resistance into Upland Cotton
item Climate Stress Effects on Major Row Crops of Mississippi
item Collect Timely Information on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from On-farm Storage Irrigation Reservoirs in the Lower Mississippi River Basin in Arkansas
item Computational Biology: Studying Species of Agronomic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Importance
item Conservation Practices for Attaining Integrated Environment-Smart Cropping in Irrigated Row Crops
item Cotton Leaf Roll Dwarf Virus Disease Management
item Cotton Leaf Roll Dwarf Virus Disease Management
item Cotton Post-Harvest Trash and By-Product Characterizations
item Crop Modeling Digital Twin Development through Remote Sensing and Machine Learning
item Deep Learning Based High-Resolution Field Level Soil Moisture Mapper from UAVs
item Design and Building a Cover Crop Planter
item Determination of Round Cotton Module Weights to Improve Data Accuracy for Improvement of Cotton Gin Operations Efficiency and Bale Traceability
item Developing a Haplotype-assisted Breeding System for Upland Cotton
item Developing a Haplotype-assisted Breeding System for Upland Cotton - Stoneville
item Developing Cotton Germplasm for U.S. Growers Resistant to Diseases and Environmental Stresses
item Developing Insecticide Resistance Management Strategies for Insect Pests Infesting Row Crops in Field and Storage Environments
item Developing Strategies and Tools to Mitigate Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Cotton and Managing the National Cotton Variety Testing Program
item Development of Novel Fiber Quality Characterization Methods
item Development of Productive, Profitable, and Sustainable Crop Production Systems for the Mid-South
item Dynamic, Data-Driven, Sustainable, and Resilient Crop Production Systems for the U.S.
item Ecologically Sustainable Approaches to Insect Resistance Management in Bt Cotton
item Effectiveness of Transgenic Crops Expressing Vegetatively-produced Bt Toxins for Heliothine Control
item Enhanced Cotton for Value-Added Applications
item Enhancing Agronomic Traits, Fiber Quality, and Resistance to Environmental Stress, Nematodes, and Fungal Diseases in Cotton
item Enhancing the Quality and Sustainability of Cotton Fiber and Textiles
item Enriching the Gene Pool of Upland Cotton
item Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Drill Seeded Rice with Soil Amendments using DNDC Model
item Evaluate Cotton Germplasm for Environmental Influence Under Extreme Climate Conditions
item Evaluating Differences in Cotton Fiber Types at Initiation and Determining the Underlying Basis for Those Differences
item Evaluation Of Elite Brassica Carinata Breeding Lines For Winter Production In South Carolina
item Evaluation of Transgenic Crops for Economically Sustainable Control of Insect Pests
item Farm-level Conservation Strategies to Reduce Carbon Footprint and Improve Productivity in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands) - (Jonesboro)
item Genetic Drift in Peripheral and Source Bollworm Populations-Cornell University
item Genetic Drift in Peripheral and Source Bollworm Populations-Pennsylvania State University
item Genetic Drift in Peripheral and Source Bollworm Populations-Texas Agrilife
item Genetic Drift in Peripheral and Source Bollworm Populations-Tidewater Ag Res & Ext Ctr
item Genomic Dissection and Molecular Characterization of Fiber Quality Traits for Cotton Variety Improvement
item Genomic Selection is Looming: Building a Robust Genotype-to-Phenotype Platform to Revolutionize Public Cotton Breeding
item Genomic Selection is Looming: Building a Robust Genotype-to-Phenotype Platform to Revolutionize Public Cotton Breeding
item Genomic Selection is Looming: Building a Robust Genotype-to-Phenotype Platform to Revolutionize Public Cotton Breeding
item Genomic Selection is Looming: Building a Robust Genotypeto-Phenotype Platform to Revolutionize Public Cotton Breeding (Florence)
item Genomics of Kenaf, Cotton, and Other Malvaceae
item Genomics of Malvaceae
item Healthy Soils and Bioproducts for Improved Nutrient-Use Efficiency and Ecosystem Services
item Identify Agronomic Interventions Need for Climate-smart Agriculture Using Remote Sensing, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and Big Data Approach
item Identifying and Mitigating Emerging Disease Threats for Cotton
item Identifying and Mitigating Emerging Disease Threats for Cotton
item Impacts of Bees on Yield Enhancement of Commonly Cultivated Field Crops
item Improved Biologically-Based Methods for Management of Native and Invasive Crop Insect Pests
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from tall tower installation in rice-Jonesboro-DWMRU
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Major Mid-South Crops-Jonesboro-DWMRU
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Major Mid-South Crops-Jonesboro-Univ. of California/Davis
item Improving Our Understanding of the Impact of Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Major Mid-South Crops-Jonesboro-University of Arkansas
item Improving Water Use Efficiency and Grain Yield of Furrow-Irrigated Rice
item Innovative Approaches for Value Added Cotton-Containing Nonwovens
item Innovative Technologies and Practices to Enhance Water Quantity and Quality Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the Southeastern Coastal Plain
item Insect Control and Resistance Management in Corn, Cotton, Sorghum, Soybean, and Sweet Potato, and Alternative Approaches to Tarnished Plant Bug Control in the Southern United States
item Integrated Crop Disease Mitigation through Improved Understanding of Relationships between Genetics, Environment, and Management
item Integrated Management of Insect Pests of Southern Row Crops
item Integrated Management of Nematodes in Southeastern Field Crops
item Integrative Applied Agricultural ‘Omics and Bioinformatics Research
item Life After the Flood: Disrupting Rice Farming by Integrating Automated, LoT-Irrigation Technologies into a Low-Water-Use Production System
item Machine Learning Integration into Breeding Programs
item Modernizing Cotton and Other Crop Breeding Systems by Integrating Genomic Analyses
item On-Farm Potato Yield Mapping Using High Resolution UAV and Satellite Remote Sensing Images and Machine
item Optimizing Conservation Management Practices for Improved Agronomic Performance and Enhanced Ecosystem Services of Cropping Systems in the Mississippi Delta Region
item Optimizing Crop Management Strategies for Enhancing the Sustainability of Integrated Crop and Livestock Agroecosystems in the Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain of Georgia
item Optimizing Pheromones and Semiochemicals for Monitoring and Management of Lygus lineolaris
item Optimizing the Management of Irrigated Cropping Systems in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Plastic Contamination Removal Robot for Cotton Fields
item Predicting Nitrogen and Sulfur Deficiency in Corn using Optical Sensors and Weed Mapping with UAV Multispectral Sensors
item Preserving Water Quantity and Quality for Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Quantifying Agronomic and Sustainability Benefits of Silicate Rock Dust Applications to Drill-Seeded Rice
item Regional Breeders Testing Network
item Resilience of Grain Crops to Chilling and Waterlogging Stress
item Scaling Climate Smart Agriculture in Arkansas and Beyond
item Southeast Partnership for Advanced Renewables from Carinata-SPARC
item Support for the Scaling of Climate Smart Agriculture for Arkansas and Beyond
item Understanding Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Irrigated Row Crop Systems
item Understanding Stink Bug-soybean Looper Interactions in Soybean in Arkansas and Mississippi
item USDA ARS Research Apprenticeship Program at University of Texas at Arlington
item Using Aerial Application and Remote Sensing Technologies for Targeted Spraying of Crop Protection Products
item Water Management Strategies to Reduce C Footprint and Preserve High Productivity in Irrigated Rice Systems
item Water Quality at the Edge of Field and In-Stream in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Weed Biology and Development of Improved Management Technologies for Invasive and Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
item Wireless Monitoring System for Real-time Insect Tracking