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Agave
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
Cassava (or manioc)
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
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)
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Striped bass
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
Hard red winter wheat
item A Centralized Wheat Transformation Facility for the Fusarium Community
item Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat for Improved Livelihoods
item Accelerating the Development of FHB-Resistant Soft Red Winter Wheat Varieties
item Adapting Agricultural Databases for Genome Features
item Advancing Technologies for Grain Trait Measurement and Storage Preservation
item Approaches to Controlling Laurel Wilt in Avocados; Optimizing Potential of Mites to Vector Beneficial Microbes
item Assessing Cross Resistance and Baseline Sensitivity to SHDI Fungicides in F. graminearum
item Attract and Kill to Monitor and Manage Khapra Beetle
item Attract-and-kill and Mating Disruption of the Stored Product Quarantine Threat Khapra Beetle
item Barberry Testing (FY22)
item Barley Fusarium Head Blight Resistance Genomics
item Barley Pest Initiative - New York
item Barley Pest Initiative - Ohio
item Barley Pest Initiative - Virginia
item Behaviorally-based Management of the Biosecurity Threat, Khapra Beetle
item Biodegradable Nanomaterial-based Non-GMO RNAi Delivery for Controlling FHB Disease
item Breed Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) resistant HWW via Doubled Haploid
item Breeding for Tolerance to Environmental Stress in Wheat
item Breeding Fusariam Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat Varieties for Montana
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) resistant Hard Winter Wheat for North Dakota
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat and Barley
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB)-resistant winter wheat for Texas and the Southern U.S.
item Breeding Scab Resistant and Low DON Winter Wheat and Barley Varieties for the Great Plains
item Characterization and Improvement of Wheat FHB Resistance Using Genomic Tools
item Characterization of Genetic Diversity in Soybean and Common Bean, and Its Application toward Improving Crop Traits and Sustainable Production
item Characterization of Quality and Marketability of Western U.S. Wheat Genotypes and Phenotypes
item Characterization of Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat and its Relatives
item Characterization of Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat and its Relatives
item Collaborative Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) Oversight between the University of Idaho and ARS Aberdeen Location
item Collaborative Research to Improve Evaluation of Advanced Wheat Germplasm for FHB Resistance in the Atlantic Coastal
item Combating Fusarium Wilt Disease, a Serious Economic Threat for Sustainable Cotton Production in the USA and Uzbekistan
item Comparative Chemosensory Genomics of Stored Product Insects
item Constraints on the Recruitment of an Invasive C4 in a Native C4 Grassland
item Continued Deployment of Prediction Models for Fusarium Head Blight
item Cooperative Improvement for Disease Resistance in Wheat
item Cooperative Improvement for Improved Rust Resistance in Wheat
item Cooperative Improvement for Improved Rust Resistance in Wheat
item Cooperative Improvement for Improved Rust Resistance in Wheat-Univ of Georgia
item Cooperative Research for Screening and Development of Wheat Germplasm with Improved Resistance to Rust Diseases
item Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Wheat and Barley
item Deoxynivalenol in Wheat and Inhibition of F. graminearum by Compounds in Wheat Bran
item Determination of Biochemical Functions of Hessian Fly Effectors
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 an Improved Understanding of Microbe-pathogen Interactions for Biological Control
item Develop Functional Markers for Wheat Biotic and Abiotic Stress
item Develop Genetic Resources and Analytic Tools for Improvement of FHB Resistance in Wheat
item Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerant Wheat Using Gene Editing
item Developing Automated Monitoring Solutions for Detection and Identification of Insect Pests of Grain
item Developing Crown Rust Resistance Oat Germplasm
item Developing Diverse Solutions for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Wheat
item Developing FHB Resistant Wheat and Barley Cultivars
item Developing FHB Resistant Wheat Cultivars for Idaho and the Western U.S.
item Developing FHB-resistant Winter Wheat for Texas and the Southern U.S.
item Developing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat for the Coastal Plain
item Developing Intergative Approaches to Tackle Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
item Developing Scab Resistant Wheat and Barley via Genomics
item Developing Semiochemical Tools for a New Putative Postharvest Seed Crop, Silphium Integrifolium
item Development and Implementation of High Throughput Phenotyping Platforms for the Quantification of Root System Architecture
item Development of a Transgene Biocontainment System for Switchgrass
item Development of Economically Important Row Crops that Improve the Resilience of U.S. Agricultural Production to Present and Future Production Challenges
item Development of FHB Resistant Wheat and Barley Varieties for the Northeastern U.S.
item Development of FHB-Resistant Wheat Cultivars for the Midsouth
item Development of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat and Barley for the NE U.S.
item Development of Genomic Tool for Cereal Crop Improvement
item Development of Genomic Tools for Genetic Improvement of Wheat
item Development of High Extensibility Wheat for Flatbreads and Blending
item Development of New Biotech Traits in Wheat for Resistance against Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus
item Development of Scab Resistant Cultivars for Kansas
item Development of Scab Resistant Soft Red Winter Wheat Germplasm Adapted to the U.S. Southeast
item Diagnostic Services for Deoxynivalenol
item Diagnostic Services for DON
item Diagnostic Testing Services for Deoxynivalenol in the Eastern U.S.
item Discover Sources, Genes, and Develop New Varieties and Germplasm with Improved Meal Protein Utilizing Diversity in Cultivated and Wild Soybeans
item Drought Stress Tolerance Trait Discovery in Wheat
item Efficacy of a New Fungicide for FHB and DON Management in Indiana
item Efficacy of Mineral Rover for High Fidelity/Temporal Resolution of Field FHB Severity
item Elucidating Fungal Processes that Evade Host Resistance and Chemical Control
item Enhance Barley Breeding and Pest Research Capabilities
item Enhancement of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in the Southeastern U.S. Germplasm
item Enhancing Fusarium Head Blight Resistance by Epigenetic Modification of Durum Cultivars
item Enhancing Germplasm and Characterizing Genetic Resources for Stem Rust Resistance in Wheat
item Enhancing Resistance to Fungal Pathogens in Small Grain Germplasm
item Enriching and Understanding the Wheat Genome by Inducing Secondary Homoeologous Recombination
item Environmental Stress Tolerance in Wheat
item Essential Oil Nanoemulsion to Control of Mycotoxin Production in Cereals
item Evaluating Fungicides for Managing Fusarium Head Blight in Louisiana
item Evaluation and Genetic Characterization of Hordeum Germplasm for Resistance to FHB
item Evaluation of Integrated Management Programs and Fungicides for Fusarium Head Blight & DON in Indiana
item Exosome Mediated Protection Against FHB
item FHB Germplasm Research, Development, and Preservation in Winter Wheat
item FHB Management in Barley: QTL Deployment and Phenotyping
item FHB Management in Delaware
item FHB Management Research in New York
item Forecasting Models for Wheat Fusarium Head Blight
item Forecasting, Outbreak Prevention, and Ecology of Grasshoppers and Other Rangeland and Crop Insects in the Great Plains
item Function, Structure and Regulation of Membrane Transport Proteins Mediating Plant Mineral Nutrition and Abiotic Stress Responses
item Functional Genetics of Wheat Grain Quality
item Fungicide Efficacy in FHB/DON Management for Hard Red Winter and Spring Wheat in South Dakota
item Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Management in Wheat in South Dakota
item Fusarium Head Blight Management in Kansas
item Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat & Barley Prediction Models
item Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
item Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
item Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
item Fusarium Head Blight Research in Delaware
item Fusarium Head Blight Risk Assessment, Management, and Education
item Fusarium Mycotoxins Management in Sprouted Cereal Grains
item Genetic Analysis of a Candidate Hessian Fly-responsive Defense Gene Function Using a Rice Cultivar as Surrogate Genome
item Genetic and Genomic Characterization of Crop Resistance to Soil-based Abiotic Stresses
item Genetic and Sequence Resources of Aegilops Markgrafii for Application in Wheat Crop Improvement Research
item Genetic Approaches to Improve Wheat Aluminum Resistance in a Carbon-Use-Efficient Means
item Genetic Characterization and Integrated Deployment of FHB Resistance in Wheat
item Genetic Engineering Barley to Improve Fusarium Head Blight Resistance
item Genetic Improvement of Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Nutritional Quality in Hard Winter Wheat
item Genetic Improvement of Grain Yield and Disease Resistance in Wheat
item Genetic Improvement of Small Grains and Characterization of Pathogen Populations
item Genetic Mechanisms and Improvement of Insect Resistance in Wheat, Barley, and Sorghum
item Genetics and Genomics of Introduced Species for Biological Control of Invasive Species
item Genetics of Aggressiveness in Fusarium graminearum
item Genomic of Host and Host-Pathogen Interaction in Cereal Rust Fungi
item Genomic Plus Phenomic Modeling of Breeding Populations from Ancient Ancestors of Wheat
item Genomics and Molecular Diagnostics of Puccinia graminis and Associated Rust Fungi
item GrainGenes: Enabling Data Access and Sustainability for Small Grains Researchers
item Group Behavior and Chemical Signaling as Drivers for Entomopathogenic Nematode Foraging and Infection Dynamics
item Haplotype-informed Prediction of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in U.S. Wheat Breeding Programs
item Harnessing the Microbiome for Protection from Fusarium Head Blight
item High Fidelity/Temporal Detection of Field Fusarium Head Blight (FHB)
item High Throughput Phenotyping of Root Architecture Traits
item How do Viruses Evict Close Relatives, and Why?
item Identification of Semiochemicals for Regulation of Potentially Invasive Pests or Beneficial Organisms for the Control of Invasive Pests to the U.S.
item Immunogenomics of Insects
item Impacts of Climate Change on Integrated Pest Management of Stored Product Insects
item Impacts of Single Kernel NIR Sorting on Hard Winter Wheat Quality, Flour Functionality and Applications
item Improved Winter Wheat Disease Resistance and Quality through Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Breeding
item Improvement of Stored Product Insect Monitoring and Mating Disruption Programs
item Improving FHB Resistance in Barley
item Improving FHB Resistance in Barley and Wheat using Breeding and Genomics Methods
item Improving Management of Stored Grain Through a Greater Understanding of Stored Product Insect Behavior
item Improving Phenotyping Accuracy Using Artificially Intelligent Technologies and Innovative Method
item Improving SRWW Resistance to FHB using Traditional and Molecular Breeding
item Inhibition of F. graminearum Growth by Compounds in Wheat Bran
item Integrated Agroecosystem Research to Enhance Forage and Food Production in the Southern Great Plains
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Pennsylvania
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in the Intermountain West
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight and DON in Winter Wheat and Barley
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat in Pennsylvania
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight of Small Grain Crops in Kentucky
item Integrated Management of Wheat in Illinois
item Integrated Management Strategies and Fungicide Testing for FHB and DON in Small Grains in North Dakota
item Integrated Management Tools to Reduce FHB Impact in the Intermountain West and the PNW
item Introduction of Aphelinus Hordei for Biological Control of the Russian Wheat Aphid
item Introduction of Aphelinus Hordei for Biological Control of the Russian Wheat Aphid
item Introgression of Aphid Resistance Genes from Ae. Tauschii into Bread Wheat
item Investigating the Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Insect-microbe Interactions and Their Ramifications for Food Quality in the Post-harvest
item Investigation of Bacteriophage Coverage of Wheat Berries During Tempering to Control Pathogens
item Investigation of Fusarium Head Blight in Tennessee
item Localization, Functions and Interacting Targets of Hessian Fly Effectors in Wheat
item Management and Innovative Research of FHB in Barley
item Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON in Wheat and Barley
item Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Missouri
item Management of Genetic Resources and Associated Information in the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Collection
item Management of the USWBSI Networking & Facilitation Office
item Management Strategies for Invasive Aphid Pests of Cereals
item Managing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Through Lab and Field Studies
item Mapping Genes Underlying Fusarium Head Blight Variation to Target
item Maximizing Adoption by Demonstrating the Compatibility of Insecticide Netting with Diverse Pest Management Tactics at Food Facilities
item Measurement and Improvement of Hard Winter Wheat End-Use Quality Traits
item Mechanism of Virus Transmission by Wheat Curl Mites
item Mechanisms of Ammonium Sencing and Ammonium Suppression of DON Biosynthesis
item Methodology Development: Identification of Biomarkers for Detection and Exclusion of Insect Pests in Agricultural Commodities
item Methods for Evaluation of Whole Wheat Flour
item Microbial Interactions with Wheat and Barley Pathogens
item Mobilizing the Genetic Resources of Ancient Grains
item Modeling for Postharvest Grain Quality and Insect Control
item Modeling Phosphine Gas Movement in Grain Bunkers
item Molecular Characterization of Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
item Molecular Characterization of Host-Insect Interactions in Cereal Crops
item Molecular Genetic Tools Advancing the Application of Biotechnology for Crop Improvement
item Molecular Genetics Approaches to Developing Scab Resistance
item Molecular Mechanisms of Two Tauschii-Derived Genes for Insect Resistance and Yield Increase in Wheat
item Monitoring Cereal Rust Development on Alternate Hosts
item Monitoring Incursion of Wheat Stem Rust of Foreign Origin
item Movement of Fumigant in Grain Bulks
item Multi-Level Remote Sensing for High-Throughput Phenotyping of Stem Rust Disease
item Mycotoxin Testing Services at Virginia Tech
item New Genetic Resources for Breeding Better Wheat and Bioenergy Crops
item New Sources of Resistance to FHB and DON in Wheat
item New Uses for Low Falling Number Hard Winter Wheat and Mechanism Study
item Next-Generation Approaches for Monitoring and Management of Stored Product Insects
item NIFA CAP for Innovation in Genomic Technology to Accelerate Breeding
item NIFA CAP for Innovation in Genomic Technology to Accelerate Breeding: Leveraging high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping technologies
item Novel Resistance Phenotyping Strategies for Hessian Fly of Wheat
item Plant-Fungal Interactions and Host Resistance in Fusarium Head Blight of Barley and Wheat
item Predictive Models for Fusarium Head Blight
item Production of Double Haploid for FHB Resistance
item Realtime Field Scab Assessment with Color and Spectral Imaging Systems on a Phenocart
item Refining IPM for FHB and DON in SRWW in Wisconsin
item Regional Screening Nurseries - Kansas
item Regulation of Plant Infection and DON Biosynthesis in Fusarium graminearum
item Relating Wheat Genotypes and Phenotypes
item Robotic Delivery (SKUNK) for Pest Management in Food Processing Facilities
item Screening for Resistance to Wheat Rusts in Southern Texas
item Smoke Exposure Effects on Grape Berry Development and Metabolism
item Sources of Aggressiveness of Fusarium graminearum
item Studies of Genetic Mechanisms of Sorghum Resistance to Aphids
item Surveillance and Analysis of Stem Rust on Hybrid and Parental Barberries
item Surveillance, Pathogen Biology, and Host Resistance of Cereal Rusts
item Susceptibility of Stored Product Insects to Reduced-risk Insecticides
item The Toxisome: An Organelle for Terpene Synthesis Involved in Fungal Virulence
item Therapeutic Molecule Evaluation and Field Delivery Pipeline for Solutions to HLB, Albany, California
item Tools for High-throughput Rheological Evaluation of Breeding Germplasm
item Toward Improving Transformation & Editing in Triticum aestivum and Sorghum Bicolor
item Transfer of FHB Resistance to NDSU Hard Red Winter Wheat Breeding Material
item Transgenerational Adaptation of Plants to Acidic pH and Toxic Metals in Soil
item Trapping Stored Product Insects in Natural and Agricultural Landscapes
item U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative's Networking and Facilitation Office and Website
item Ug99 Surveillance Through California Sentinel Plots
item Ug99 Surveillance Through Sentinel Plots
item Understanding Mechanisms of Multitrophic Interactions between Aphids, Viruses, Symbionts and Cereal Plants
item USWBSI Wheat Transformation/Gene Editing Facility
item Validation and Delivery of Sugarcane Aphid + Natural Enemy Threshold Sampling Plans in Grain Sorghum
item Wheat and Pulse Product Functionality and Nutrition
item Wheat Breeding and Variety Development (Wheat Improvement Team)
item Wheat Crop Improvement for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance by Cytogenetics
item Wheat Pathology Research
item Wheat Rust Resistance and Biology Research
item Wheat Stripe Rust Initiative
item Winter Wheat Breeding for Scab Resistance in South Dakota