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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
Endangered species
Experimental design and statistical methods
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Filbert
Finfish
Fish habitats
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
Grasslands, 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
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
Grain sorghum
item Agreement with Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS) to Store PVP Seed Material
item Agricultural Research Projects Conducted at the Cropping Systems Research Laboratory and Texas Tech University
item Alleviating Specialty Crop Export Barriers to France with Home Compostable Stickers
item Alleviating Specialty Crop Export Barriers to France with Home Compostable Stickers
item Alleviating Specialty Crop Export Barriers to France with Home Compostable Stickers
item An Integrated Approach for Plant Genetic Resources Conservation, Characterization, Evaluation, Documentation, and Distribution
item ARS-KSU Cooperative Project on Evaluation of Sorghum Hybrid Lines Derived from ARS Lubbock Populations for Early Season Performance
item Bacterial Endosymbiont Effects on Biology of Cereal Aphids and Key Natural Enemies in Cereal Agroecosystems
item Biobased and Biodegradable Chemicals and Materials for Home and Personal Care Products
item Biochemistry and Physiology of Crop Adaptation to Soil-Based Abiotic Stresses
item Biological Barriers to Prevent Gene Flow in Sorghum (Sorghum Bicolor) for Bioenergy and Forage Uses
item Bioplastics and Natural Carotenoid from Cheese Byproducts
item Bioproducts and Biopolymers from Agricultural Feedstocks
item Breeding Insight Phase 2: Expansion to Support More Diverse Plant and Animal Use Cases
item Breeding Insight Platform (BIP) Initiative
item Calibration and Evaluation of a Multi-Scale Spatially Distributed Evapotranspiration (ET) Algorithm
item CAREER: Unraveling the Metabolic Networks Underlying Plant Stress Adaptation
item Characterization of Phenolic Compounds in Sorghum Bicolor
item Climate Adaptation and Sustainability in Switchgrass: Exploring Plant-microbe-soil Interactions Across Continental Scale Environmental Gradients
item Collaborative Research with the Center for Plant Conservation to Determine Responses to Long-term Storage Conditions
item Computational and Genomic Resources to Support Plant Genome Function
item Constraints on the Recruitment of an Invasive C4 in a Native C4 Grassland
item Contributions of Climate, Soils, Species Diversity, and Management to Sustainable Crop, Grassland, and Livestock Production Systems
item Cultivar Development: Enhancing Productivity by Developing Grain Sorghum Hybrids Using Public and Private Sector Germplasm
item Determining the Host Suitability and If Cross-resistance Exists for Cereal and Grass Crops Infested by the Hedgehog Grain Aphid in the Great Plains
item Develop a Two-Line Hybrid Breeding System Using a Nuclear Male Sterile Mutant and It's Gene
item Developing Canopy Temperature Based Methodologies to Inform Irrigation Decisions
item Developing Integrated Ecological Tactics for Managing Sugarcane Aphid Outbreak
item Development and Characterization of Sorghum with Improved End-use Quality
item Development of Climate Resilient Germplasm and Management Tools for Sustainable Row Crop Production
item Development of Educational Materials for the Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources
item Development of Pan-genomic & Computational Resources for Agriculture
item Discovery and Improvement of Traits to Enhance Sorghum as a Multiple Purpose Crop
item Discovery of Plant Genetic Mechanisms Controlling Microbial Recruitment to the Root Microbiome
item Ecological Genomics in Switchgrass
item Effect of Natural and Controlled Fermentation on the Functional Properties of Sorghum
item Effect of Soil Sulfur Content on Sorghum Protein Quality
item Effect of Sorghum Grain Components Fermentation and Co-product Quality
item Effect of Sorghum on Reducing Stress Feeding Behavior, Inflammation and Improve Swine Muscle Composition
item Effects of Grain Properties and Fermentation Approaches on Fermentation Efficiency and Co-product Quality
item Elucidating the Role of Brown midrib12 (Bmr12) Gene in Modulating Sorghum Defense Against Sugarcane Aphid
item Enhancement of Elite Sorghum Germplasm through Introgression Breeding and Analysis of Traits Critical to Hybrid Development
item Enhancement of Sorghum Genetic Diversity for Disease Resistance and Key Agronomic Traits
item Enhancing Educational Outcomes for Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Use
item Evaluate and Compare Current Amylose Quantification Methods for Grain Sorghum
item Evaluation of Sorghum Bioactive Compounds as Anti-bacterial Agents in Legionella and Listeria Infections
item Evaluation of Sorghum Bioactive Compounds in Cancer Metabolic Pathways
item Evaluation of Sorghum Extracts as Anti-bacterial Agents against Staphylococcus aureus
item Evaluation of Wheat Tortilla Quality Using Near-infrared Spectroscopy
item Exploring the Molecular Causes and Phenotypic Consequences of Bacterial Enrichment Patterns in the Root Endospheres of Drought-Stressed Crop Systems
item Function, Structure and Regulation of Membrane Transport Proteins Mediating Plant Mineral Nutrition and Abiotic Stress Responses
item Functional Properties of Sorghum Biomolecules Related to Human Health Benefits
item Genetic Approaches to Improve Wheat Aluminum Resistance in a Carbon-Use-Efficient Means
item Genetic Improvement of Maize and Sorghum for Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
item Genetic Improvement of Sorghum for Bioenergy, Feed, and Food Uses
item Genetic Mechanisms and Improvement of Insect Resistance in Wheat, Barley, and Sorghum
item Grain Composition Traits Related to End-Use Quality and Value of Sorghum
item Identify Key Alleles for Improving Sorghum Grain Nutrition
item Imaging and Hyper Spectral Analysis of Sorghum and Other Grains for Grain Composition and Properties Affecting Processing and End-use Quality
item Impact of a Plains Production System on Sustainable Production of Grain Sorghum
item Impact of Sorghum Pericarp Color and Grain Composition in Pet Food Applications
item Impacts of Single Kernel NIR Sorting on Hard Winter Wheat Quality, Flour Functionality and Applications
item Improve Irrigation Management with Remote Sensing Technology
item Improved silkfly control for sweetcorn
item Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance of Grain and Forage Sorghum
item Improving Crop Efficiency Using Genomic Diversity and Computational Modeling
item Improving Crop Performance and Precision Irrigation Management in Semi-Arid Regions through Data-Driven Research, AI, and Integrated Models
item Improving Irrigated and Dryland Agriculture Via Xylem, Stomata, and Leaf Traits
item Improving Maize and Sorghum Efficiency Using Grass Diversity and Computational Modeling
item Improving Sustainability of Low-input Cropping Systems
item Influence of Environment and Plant Growth on Sorghum Grain Composition and End-use Quality
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 Integrating Field Measurements and Models to Evaluate Solar Induced Fluorescence as a Predictor of Dryland Crop Productivity
item Leverage of USDA Operational Resources for the Development of New Sorghum Technologies and Breeding Germplasm
item Management Strategies for Invasive Aphid Pests of Cereals
item Mapping Crop Genome Functions for Biology-Enabled Germplasm Improvement
item Mass Spectroscopy Analysis of High Polyphenol Sorghum Brans
item Measurement and Improvement of Hard Winter Wheat End-Use Quality Traits
item Methods for Evaluation of Whole Wheat Flour
item Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of Biotic and Abiotic Stress on Plant Defense Responses in Maize
item Molecular and Genetic Approaches to Manage Cotton and Sorghum Diseases
item Molecular Basis of Host Plant Resistance to Aphids in Sorghum
item Molecular Causes and Phenotypic Consequences of Bacterial Enrichment Patterns in the Root Endospheres of Drought-Stressed Crop Systems
item Molecular Causes and Phenotypic Consequences of Bacterial Enrichment Patterns in the Root Endospheres of Drought-Stressed Crop Systems
item Novel Approaches for Management of Row Crop Pests and Continued Boll Weevil Eradication
item Novel Sorghum Lines Tolerant to Drought and Resistant to Sugarcane Aphids for Food Security in Honduras
item Nutrient Limitation and Disturbance in C4 Grasslands
item Omics-Assisted Breeding Approaches for Sorghum Hybrid Improvement
item Phenolic Extracts from USDA-ARS Sorghum Novel Lines and Inhibition of the Inflammasomes
item Phytoelectronic Xylem Sensing
item Plant Exploration in the Central Highlands and Mountainous Area of Northern Vietnam to Collect Malus doumeri Germplasm
item Plant Genetic Resources for Tropical Crop Collections
item Relationship Between Physical and Chemical Properties of Sorghum and Susceptibility to Stored Product Insects
item Relationships Between Sorghum Physical Grain Attributes, Grain Composition and End-use Quality
item RNA Integrity as a Powerful Metric of Aging in Preserved Seed Collections of Wild Rare Plant Species
item Seaweed-based Packaging
item Seed Increase, Evaluation, and Phytosanitary Assessment of Tropically-Adapted Genetic Resources
item Seed Quality and Germination Tests of Seeds Stored at NLGRP
item Sorghum Bioactive Compounds in Mouse Disease Models
item Studies of Genetic Mechanisms of Sorghum Resistance to Aphids
item Sweet CAP: Integrated Technologies to Improve Sweet Corn Production and Marketability
item Sweet CAP: Integrated Technologies to Improve Sweet Corn Production and Marketability
item The Chemistry and Effectiveness of Plant Vitrification Solutions for Use in Cryopreservation
item The Extraordinary Connections Between the Catabolism of Flavonols and Benzoate Metabolism
item The Genetic Architecture of Hydraulic and Whole-plant Performance under Cold Temperatures in Sunflower
item The Impact of Climate and Water Availability on Foliar Xylem Traits of Sunflower
item Transforming Grain Sorghum’s Climatic Yield Potential and Grain Quality Through Trait-based Ideotype Breeding
item Transgenerational Adaptation of Plants to Acidic pH and Toxic Metals in Soil
item Understanding Soil and Environmental Effects on Crop Species and Rangeland Ecosystems Under Water Limitation
item Use of Sorghum Flour in Production of Gluten-free Cookies for Incorporation into Ice Cream
item Use of the Sorghum Association Panel to Develop a Phenotypic Dataset and Phenotyping Protocols for Grain Quality and Agronomic Traits
item Validation and Delivery of Sugarcane Aphid + Natural Enemy Threshold Sampling Plans in Grain Sorghum
item Wheat Breeding and Variety Development (Wheat Improvement Team)
item Wireless Monitoring System for Real-time Insect Tracking
item Zero Waste Agricultural Processing