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item Agricultural Water, Land Retirement, and Habitat on the Pacific Flyway: A Non-market Value Assessment
item AI/Machine-Learning Software for Measurement of EPG Waveforms from Mosquito Feeding
item Application of a Watershed Model to Assess Groundwater Sustainability Under Changing Climatic and Management Scenarios
item Applications of Innovative Sensors to Quantify Atmospheric and Subsurface Fluxes of Water, Energy, and Contaminants
item Assessing the Fate of Metal Oxide Associated Contaminants During Managed Aquifer Recharge
item Breeding and Evaluation of Raisin Grapes with Superior Quality Including Disease Resistance and Natural Dry on Vine Types
item Breeding and Evaluation of Raisin Grapes with Superior Quality Including Disease Resistance and Natural Dry on Vine Types (Year 2).
item Breeding Prunus and Vitis to Improve Disease Resistance, Fruit Quality, and Climate Change Adaptation
item CAP- Advanced Testing and Commercialization of Novel Defensin Peptides and Therapies for HLB Control
item Characterization and Metabolomic Analysis of GLRaV-3 Resistant Table Grape Germplasm
item Characterization and Transcriptomic Analysis of Putative resistance to Grapevine leafroll-associated Virus 3 Grape Germplasm.
item Collaborative Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) Oversight and Research between UC Riverside and ARS Salinity Lab
item Collaborative Institutional Biosafety Committee Oversight and Research between the University of California Davis and the ARS
item Conservation and Improved Storage Technologies for Pollinators and Other Insects of Agricultural Importance
item Conservation and Utilization of Genetic Resources and Associated Data for Perennial Crops Adapted to Mediterranean and Subtropical Climates
item Control Citrus Huanglongbing by Using the Citrus Isolate of Nectarine Marafivirus M and its Expression System - Parlier
item Control of Grapevine Leafroll Associated Virus 3 Using Nanobody
item Determining Subsurface Hydraulic Properties and Water Content Using Geophysical Methods and Limited Soil/Sediment Datasets
item Develop Functional Plant-Based Proteins
item Developing Genomic Resources for Exotic Resistance-Breaking Root-Knot Nematode of Almond
item Developing Genomic Resources for the Invasive Foliar Pathogen of Almond, Polystigma amygdalinum
item Development of Applied Management Systems for Diseases of Perennial Crops with Emphasis on Vector-Borne Pathogens of Grapevine and Citrus
item Development of Grape Rootstock Varieties with Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance by Genome Editing of Cytidine Diphosphate Diacylglycerol Synthases
item Development Of Innovative Methods And Strategies For Surveillance, Early Detection And Monitoring Of Xylella Fastidiosa Epidemics
item Driving Insect-Microbe Interactions by Natural Immune-Modulators: a Novel Tool for Insect Rearing and Control
item Enhancing Marketability and Ensuring Safety for Peanut and Tree Nut Consumers
item Enhancing Specialty Crop Irrigation: Advancing Evapotranspiration Forecasting with Satellites and Machine Learning
item Evaluating Models of Radiation Transfer and Carbon-Water Exchange in Vineyard and Orchard Canopies
item Evaluating New Breeding Material for Salinity Tolerance in Almond Rootstocks and Exploring Novel Sources of Salinity Tolerance in Prunus Germplasm
item Evaluation of Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Alternative Plant Proteins
item Examining Perennial Crop Physiology, Evapotranspiration, and Carbon Dynamics Using Surface-based Measurements and Proximal Remote Sensing Techniques
item Examining the Potential of Metabolites Produced by Central Valley Vineyard-Isolated Fungi for Biorational Control of Grapevine Pests (Year 2)
item Exploiting and Enhancing IgE-Binding Epitopes of the 2S Albumins of Peanuts and Tree Nuts
item Fermentation for Functional Proteins
item Functional Modulation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by the Lettuce Phyllosphere Microbiome
item Fusion of Machine Learning and Electromagnetic Sensors for Real-Time Local Decisions in Agriculture
item Genomic and Phenotypic Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 REPEXH02 Strains
item Grape Germplasm Evaluation For Vine Mealybug Resistance
item Green Chemicals from Agricultural Feedstocks
item Host Range of Citrus Yellow Vein Clearing Virus
item Human Pathogens within the Produce Production Continuum; their Detection, Mechanisms for Persistence, and Ecology
item Identification of Novel Central Valley Trichoderma Isolates for Biological Control of Pierce’s Disease in California
item Identifying Vulnerabilities in Vector-host-pathogen Interactions of Grapevine and Citrus Pathosystems to Advance Sustainable Management Strategies
item Improved Agroecosystem Efficiency and Sustainability in a Changing Environment
item Improved Pest and Disease Control for Enhanced Woody Perennial Tree Crop and Grapevine Production
item Improving Irrigation Efficiencies and Sustainability in Woody Perennial Crops Specific to California
item Integrated Optimization Framework of California Water and Land Use
item Isolation of Nanofibrillated Cellulose from Agricultural Residues Using a Novel Chemi-Mechanical Process for Cost Reduction
item Large-scale Breeding and Evaluation of the Next Generation of Superior Rootstocks for Citrus Production in Regions with Huanglongbing (HLB)
item Linking Climate Change Impacts on Forest Health, Fire Risk, and Vegetation and Snow Dynamics in California
item Linking Ground Based and Remotely Sensed Stress Physiology of California Woody Perennial Crops
item Machine Learning for Unearthing Environmental Drivers of Soil Moisture Dynamics and Scaling to Hillslope and Remote Sensing Observations
item Mapping Wetting, Salinity and Root Uptake Patterns Below Intercropping Plantations with (full title in comments)
item Monitoring Aquifer Recharge Dynamics in the Deep Vadose zone using Borehole Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging
item Non Funded Cooperative Agreement Between Parlier Unified School District and the USDA-ARS
item Nonequilibrium Processes Influencing Contaminant Fate During Managed Aquifer Recharge
item Novel and Sustainable Processing Technologies and Healthy Food Ingredients
item Novel Isochoric Processing For Sustainable, Safe And High Quality Preservation Of Fluid Foods
item Novel Isochoric Processing for Sustainable, Safe and High Quality Preservation of Fluid Foods
item Novel Methods for the Mitigation of Human Pathogens and Mycotoxin Contamination of High Value California Specialty Crops
item Pest Management in Floriculture Crops through Applications of Optical Sensing and Other Innovative Technologies
item Pilot Citrus Breeding Research Project at the USDA-ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center in Parlier, CA
item Predicting Individual Response to Dietary Intake
item Pretreatment Technologies for Managed Aquifer Recharge to Mitigate Clogging and to Remove Contaminants
item Process Engineering and Techno-Economic Validation of Commercially Competitive Ingredients from Food Waste and Processing Byproducts
item Protection of California Citrus from Citrus Yellow Vein Clearing
item Quantifying Land-Atmosphere Fluxes of Carbon, Water, and Energy in Woody Perennial Cropping Systems
item Rethinking California’s Managed Aquifer Recharge Beyond Flat Terrains: A Multi-Method Assessment of Hillslope Processes
item Screening of Locally Isolated Chitinase-Producing Bacteria for Biological Control of Powdery Mildew in Grapevine
item Spatial and Ecological Considerations for Groundwater Markets and Managed Recharge
item Synergistic Managed Aquifer Strategies to Sustain Irrigated Agriculture (CA)
item Synergistic Managed Aquifer Strategies to Sustain Irrigated Agriculture (NACA)
item Testing the Ability of Novel Grapevine-isolated Californian Trichoderma Strains to Protect Grafting Materials to Prevent Graft Rejection
item Trees for the Future: Coordinated Use of Genetic Tools to Develop Geographic and Climate Adapted Pecan
item Understanding and Improving Salinity Tolerance in Specialty Crops
item Updating and Enhancing Statistical Analysis Software for EPG of Arthropod Feeding