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Understanding and improving salinity tolerance in specialty crops (Agricultural Water Efficiency and Salinity Research)
Water management for crop production in arid and semi-arid regions and the safe use of alternative water resources (Agricultural Water Efficiency and Salinity Research)
Climate-smart, adaptive, and resilient production and pest management practices for nursery, greenhouse, and protected culture crops (Application Technology Research)
Organic and metal contaminant occurrence and fate in operational water when producing containerized specialty crops (Application Technology Research)
Assessment of a sprayer retrofitted with stereo vision guided variable rate control system for pesticide efficacy and system durability (Application Technology Research)
Investigating the feasibility of utilizing stereo vision systems in variable rate application systems for specialty crops (Application Technology Research)
Evaluating the performance of a variable rate orchard sprayer with a stereo vision system (Application Technology Research)
Organic and metal contaminant occurrence and fate in operational water when producing containerized specialty crops (Application Technology Research)
Minor use pesticide – food/ornamentals (Application Technology Research)
Modeling spray droplet movements discharged from intelligent sprayers used in specialty crop production (Application Technology Research)
Next-gen smart surfaces/coatings to improve food safety and water efficiency of us specialty crops in harvesting, storage, sorting, and processing (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Food Quality Laboratory)
Genotypic characterization of genetic resources for cacao, coffee, and other tropical perennial crops economically important to the united states (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory)
Action area no. 2 (aa2) - greenhouse gas research network - initial equipment needs - fort collins (Center for Agricultural Resources Research: Soil Management and Sugarbeet Research)
Partnership for improving southwestern specialty crop sustainability and byproducts utilization (Cotton Ginning Research)
Enhancing virus control in lettuce and melons by optimizing immunity priming approaches (Crop Improvement and Protection Research)
Economic vitality of small farms through agroforestry and specialty crops (Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center)
Sustainable and profitable production of specialty crops in a changing environment (Daniel K. Inouye U.s. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center: Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research)
Leveraging plasticity of thermal tolerance in megachile rotundata and pteromalus venustus as a potential parasitoid mitigation strategy (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Weed and Insect Biology Research Unit)
Building tools for specialty crop breeding programs (Genomics and Bioinformatics Research)
Resilience of integrated weed management systems in midwest crop production systems (Global Change and Photosynthesis Research)
Resilience of integrated weed management systems in midwest crop production systems (Global Change and Photosynthesis Research)
Strawberry nursery production in the u.s.: what are the high risk viruses circulating in the system? (Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research)
Strawberry nursery production in the u.s.: what are the high risk viruses circulating in the system? (arkansas) (Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research)
Evaluating physiology and gene expression following induced polyploidy of specialty crops (National Clonal Germplasm Repository)
Designing drought tolerant specialty crops using metabolic modeling (National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus)
Estimating and projecting spring freeze risk to midwest specialty crops (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
Integrated midwest partnerships for actionable climate tools and training (impact2): supporting system transformation on working lands (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
Purdue university - midwest regional climate center, agricultural climatology data and tools (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
Improving specialty crop resilience to climate change and pests in the midwest (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
Biobased pesticide discovery and product optimization and enhancement from medicinal and aromatic crops (Natural Products Utilization Research)
A general framework for cooperation on horticultural research projects (Physiology and Pathology of Tree Fruits Research)
Genetic resource and information management for pulse, temperate forage legume, oilseed, vegetable, grasses, sugar, ornamental, and other crops (Plant Germplasm Introduction and Testing Research)
Enabling mechanistic allele mining to accelerate genomic selection for new agro-ecosystems (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research)
Improved systems-based approaches that maintain commodity quality and control of arthropod pests important to u.s. agricultural production, trade and quarantine (San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center: Commodity Protection and Quality Research)
Establishing agronomic and pest management practices for vegetable, specialty crops, and fruit growers while improving pollinator health (Southern Horticultural Research)
Establishing agronomic and pest management practices for vegetable, specialty crops, and fruit growers while improving pollinator health (Southern Horticultural Research)
Improved agroecosystem efficiency and sustainability in a changing environment (Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Research)
Examining perennial crop physiology, evapotranspiration, and carbon dynamics using surface-based measurements and proximal remote sensing techniques (Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Research)
Improving irrigation management in specialty crop systems (Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Research)
Climate-informed decisions for natural and working lands (Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Research)
Understanding the biosynthesis of volatile phenylpropenes in carrots (Vegetable Crops Research)
Coordination of research activities to register minor use pesticides, and research in food and ornamental crops to support the ir-4 program (Vegetable Research)
Coordination of research activities to register minor use pesticides, and research in food and ornamental crops to support the ir-4 program (Vegetable Research)
Novel methods for the mitigation of human pathogens and mycotoxin contamination of high value california specialty crops (Western Regional Research Center: Foodborne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research)
Novel and sustainable processing technologies and healthy food ingredients (Western Regional Research Center: Healthy Processed Foods Research)
Emerging processing and preservation technologies to produce healthy foods and develop concept products (Western Regional Research Center: Healthy Processed Foods Research)

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