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Agave
Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Apricot
Aquatic plants
Arboreta and botanical gardens
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
Berries and cane fruits, other
Biological Cell Systems
Blueberry
Broadleaf forests of the South
Canola
Carrot
Catfish
Cheese
Chemurgic Crops
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Conifer forests of the North
Conifer forests of the South
Conifer forests of the West
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cranberry
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Cut flowers, foliage, and greens
Dairy cattle, general/other
Dairy cattle, live animal
Date
Deciduous and small fruits, general/other
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Domestic and community water supply facilities and systems
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Duck and goose, live animal
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Eggplant
Eggs
Experimental design and statistical methods
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Filbert
Finfish
Fish habitats
Flax
Florist crops, other
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
Fungi (includes yeast)
General Commodity
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)
Ground covers
Guayule
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Herbs and spices
Honey bees
Hops
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Kenaf
Kiwi
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Lesquerella
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
Marketing, processing, and supply firms other than cooperatives
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Milk
Mint
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Mixed conifer-broadleaf forests
Mountain grasslands, meadow, and alpine
Mushrooms and other edible fungi
Narcotic plants
Nectarine
Nematodes
Noncrop plant research
Nonfarm structures and related facilities, including those used in
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Onion, garlic, leek, shallot
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other animals, general
Other beef cattle products
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other cultured finfish
Other dairy cattle products
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other Pollinators
Other poultry products
Other swine products
Oysters
Papaya
Paper and pulp derived products
Parks and urban green space
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pear
Peas (dry)
Peas (fresh, fresh-processed)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Pineapple
Pinyon-juniper
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Poultry, general/other
Protozoa
Raisin grapes
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Raspberry
Red clover
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research equipment and methods, general/other
Research on research management (not research management per se)
Rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, and root crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Rice
River basins
Rubber, gum, and resin plants, other
Rye
Salmon
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep and wool, general/other
Sheep, live animal
Shellfish
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Striped bass
Structures, facilities, and equipment, general/other
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Sugar crops, general/other
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Sweet potato
Sweet sorghum
Sweetcorn
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
Taro
Tea
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Tilapia
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Trout
Tung
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viroids, mycoplasmas, spiroplasmas, etc.
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
Wildlife habitats
Wine grapes
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Wood and wood products
Wool fiber
Grapes, other
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 Assessing the Fate of Metal Oxide Associated Contaminants During Managed Aquifer Recharge
item Biological Fungicides Tank Mixed with Sulfur for Management of Grape Powdery Mildew
item Breeding and Evaluation of Seedless Table Grapes Including Types Resistant to Powdery Mildew
item Breeding Insight 3
item Breeding Insight Phase 2: Expansion to Support More Diverse Plant and Animal Use Cases
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 CERCA - Circular Economy that Reimagines Corn Agriculture (CERCA: On-Farm Nitrogen Recycling)
item Championing Improvement of Sorghum and Other Agriculturally Important Species through Data Stewardship and Functional Dissection of Complex Traits
item Climate Change Mitigation Outreach and Education: California Climate Hub
item Climate Informed Reforestation Guidance, Resources, Workshops and Extension
item Completing the Grapevine Powdery Mildew Resistance Pipeline: From Genes-on-the-Shelf to Sticks-in-the-Ground
item Creating a Circular Economy that Reimagines Agriculture Using Plant Diversity and Computational Modeling
item Determining Subsurface Hydraulic Properties and Water Content Using Geophysical Methods and Limited Soil/Sediment Datasets
item Develop and Apply Novel Gene Editing Tools for Improving Flowering Traits of Horticultural and Floricultural Plants
item Develop Nano-Based Methods for Delivering DNAs, RNAs and/or Proteins into Plant Cells for Modifying Grapevine Genes Non-Transgenically
item Develop Novel Transient Transformation Methods for Creating Non-Transgenic Gene Editing Events in Grapevine
item Developing a Spray-Induced Gene Silencing (SIGS) Method for the Control of Grape Powdery Mildew (Erysiphe necator)
item Development of Applied Management Systems for Diseases of Perennial Crops with Emphasis on Vector-Borne Pathogens of Grapevine and Citrus
item Development of New Genomic Resources and Tools for Molecular Breeding in Muscadine Grape
item Enabling Mechanistic Allele Mining to Accelerate Genomic Selection for New Agro-Ecosystems
item Establishing Agronomic and Pest Management Practices for Vegetable, Specialty Crops, and Fruit Growers while Improving Pollinator Health
item Establishing CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Targeted Mutagenesis Protocol to Develop Seedless Muscadine Grape
item Evaluating Models of Radiation Transfer and Carbon-Water Exchange in Vineyard and Orchard Canopies
item Examining Perennial Crop Physiology, Evapotranspiration, and Carbon Dynamics Using Surface-based Measurements and Proximal Remote Sensing Techniques
item Explainable Deep Learning-Based Image Analysis with Blackbird RGB Imaging Robot for Laboratory High Throughput Phenotyping
item FRAME: Fungicide Resistance Assessment Mitigation and Extension Network for Wine, Table and Raisin Grapes
item Fungal Microbiome Associated with Grapevine Trunk Diseases in Oregon Vineyards
item Genetic Improvement of Grape Quality and Adaptation to Diseases and Abiotic Stress
item Genetic Improvement of Small Fruits and Ornamental Plants to Enhance Traits Desirable to Consumers and Tolerance to Biotic and Abiotic Stress
item Genomics Based Technology for Identification, Tracking, Surveillance, and Pest Management of Vine Mealybug in Vineyards
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 Impact of Grapevine Leafroll-associated Virus 3 Genetic Variants and Emerging Viruses on Wine Grape Quality in the Pacific Northwest
item Impact of Pediococcus on Wine Chemical and Sensory Properties
item Improved Agroecosystem Efficiency and Sustainability in a Changing Environment
item Improved Fruit, Grape and Wine Products through Precision Agriculture and Quality Component Evaluation
item Improving Irrigation Efficiencies and Sustainability in Woody Perennial Crops Specific to California
item Improving Maize and Sorghum Efficiency Using Grass Diversity and Computational Modeling
item Integrated Optimization Framework of California Water and Land Use
item Knowledge Based Tools for Exotic and Emerging Diseases of Small Fruit and Nursery Crops
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 Linking Measured Root Zone Dynamics to Atmospheric and Subsurface Fluxes
item Machine Learning for Unearthing Environmental Drivers of Soil Moisture Dynamics and Scaling to Hillslope and Remote Sensing Observations
item Machine-Buildable Version of the AC-DC Electropenetrograph for Commercialization
item Managed Aquifer Recharge to Sustain Irrigated Agriculture
item Management of Diseases, Pests, and Pollinators of Horticultural Crops
item New Technologies and Methodologies for Increasing Quality, Marketability and Value of Food Products and Byproducts
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 Pilot Citrus Breeding Research Project at the USDA-ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center in Parlier, CA
item Predicting Smoke Exposure in Vineyards.
item Pretreatment Technologies for Managed Aquifer Recharge to Mitigate Clogging and to Remove Contaminants
item Preventing Xylella Fastidiosa in California Ripe Olive by Determining Susceptibility of California Ripe Olive Varieties
item Rethinking California’s Managed Aquifer Recharge Beyond Flat Terrains: A Multi-Method Assessment of Hillslope Processes
item Screening Muscadine Grape for Resistance to Pierce’s Disease Pathogen
item Small Fruit and Nursery Research
item Strengthening Grapevine Research Collaborations Between USDA-ARS and Cornell University
item Study of the Putative Vectors Associated with Citrus Yellow Vein Clearing Virus (CYVCV) discovered in Tulare County, California
item Substrate-borne Vibrational Signals in Intraspecific Communication of the Blue-Green Sharpshooter
item Synergistic Managed Aquifer Strategies to Sustain Irrigated Agriculture
item Synergistic Managed Aquifer Strategies to Sustain Irrigated Agriculture (CA)
item Synergistic Managed Aquifer Strategies to Sustain Irrigated Agriculture (NACA)
item The USDA Climate Hubs – Supporting Natural and Working Lands Resilience by Co-Developing and Communicating Research-Informed Agro-Climate Practices
item Updating and Enhancing Statistical Analysis Software for EPG of Arthropod Feeding
item Use of Non-Saccharomyces Yeasts to Ferment High Sugar Chardonnay Grape Musts from the Pacific Northwest
item Virome Associated with Common Grape Virus Diseases in the Pacific Northwest and the Development of New Detection Tools
item Whole Genome Sequencing for Epidemiology, Population Structure, and Fungicide Resistance of Botrytis spp. in the Pacific Northwest