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Agave
Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Annual grasses, other
Apple
Aquatic plants
Arboreta and botanical gardens
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Baitfish (minnows and shiners)
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Biological Cell Systems
Blueberry
Broadleaf forests of the South
Butter
Canola
Carrot
Catfish
Cheese
Chemurgic Crops
Cherry
Chinese tallow
Citrus, general/other
Clams and mussels
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
Crawfish
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Cultured aquatic animals, general/other
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
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
Grasslands, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Ground covers
Guayule
Gums
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Honey bees
Hops
Horses, ponies, and mules
Ice cream
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Invertebrates, general/other
Kiwi
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
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
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 poultry products
Other swine products
Oysters
Papaya
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
Sensory evaluation/analysis methods (human senses)
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
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
Soft red wheat
item A Winter NABSEN
item Accelerating Breeding Cycles in Wheat
item Accelerating Genetic Gain for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Southern Soft Wheat
item Accelerating the Development of FHB-Resistant Soft Red Winter Wheat Varieties for Kentucky
item Accelerating Wheat Breeding with Pan-Genome and High-Throughput Genotyping Resources
item Advancing Field FHB Phenotyping Capabilities
item Ag-Discovery Summer Enrichment Program (2024)
item Agreement Regarding Mutual Understanding of Requirements for Cooperator Employees to Ride In or Operate Government-Owned Vehicles
item AI-Powered Wheat FHB and FDK Assessment Tool Development
item Associations of Wheat Protein Quantity and Quality with Dough Mixing, Sheeting and Cracker Baking Quality
item Barley Pest Initiative - Virginia
item Barley Pest Initiative - Virginia
item Biochemical and Genetic Control of Eastern U.S. Soft Winter Wheat for Improved End-use Quality and Marketability
item Bolstering Winter Wheat FHB Resistance in the Carolinas
item Breeding and Cooperative Testing for Scab Resistance in Illinois
item Breeding Durum Wheat for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance
item Breeding FHB Resistant Winter Wheat for the NE U.S.
item Breeding FHB-resistant Hard Winter Wheat for North Dakota
item Breeding Fusariam Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat Varieties for Montana
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Spring Wheat
item Breeding Spring and Winter Barley with Lower DON
item Breeding Wheat for Resistance to FHB at Michigan State University
item Characterizing Diverse Genes for Robust Crops
item Contributions of Soft Wheat Flour Constituents to Lactic Acid Solvent Retention Capacity
item Corn Mycotoxin Mitigation Initiative
item Curation of Nutrient-Associated Enzymes and Machine Learning Analysis of Mutational Effects in Enzymatic Activity in Wheat and Barley Pangenomes
item Current and Novel Wheat Scab Management in Illinois
item Deciphering and Improving Cereal Resistance to Rust Diseases Using Genome Editing Tools
item Deoxynivalenol (DON) and DON-3-glucoside in Wheat and Barley
item Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Wheat and Barley
item Deoxynivalenol Diagnostic Services
item Deriving Functional Wheat Bran Extracts for Bakery Applications
item Determination of Fungicide Efficacy for Management of Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat
item Determining the Roles of Fusarium Effector Proteases in Plant Pathogenesis
item Develop an Improved Understanding of Microbe-pathogen Interactions for Biological Control
item Develop Fusarium Head Blight-Resistant Maryland Wheat & Barley Cultivars
item Developing Diverse Solutions for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Wheat
item Developing FHB Resistant Small Grain Cultivars for Maryland
item Developing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat for the Coastal Plain
item Developing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat lines for the Midsouth
item Developing Malting Barley with Reduced FHB and DON in North Dakota
item Developing More Durable Wheat Rust Resistant Germplasm
item Developing Native and Induce Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance Solutions in Wheat
item Developing New Technologies for Improving Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight
item Developing New Technologies for Improving Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight (2025)
item Developing Pangenome Assessments for Agricultural Gain
item Developing Scab Resistant Wheat and Barley via Genomics
item Developing Tools for Genotype Independent Transformation and Gene-Editing in Cereals
item Development of Alpha-Amylase Immunoassays to Replace the Falling Number Method
item Development of Disease-Resistant Bread Wheat for Mid-Atlantic Region
item Development of Durum Wheat Breeding Lines with Enhanced Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight
item Development of Efficient, Tissue Culture Free Genome Editing Tools for all Plant Species
item Development of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat and Barley for the NE U.S.
item Development of Improved Genotyping Systems in Wheat
item Development of Pre-Harvest Sprouting (PHS) Resistant Germplasms for Eastern U.S. Soft Winter (ESW) Wheat
item Diagnostic Services for Deoxynivalenol
item Durum FHB Resistance: Gene Discovery and Nursery Screening
item Efficient Methods for Small Grains Cultivar Production
item Efficiently Breeding Balanced FHB Resistant ND Cultivars
item Elevating FHB Resistance in South Dakota Spring Wheat
item Enhance Wheat Germplasm through Characterizing, Introgressing, and Engineering Stem Rust Resistance
item Enhancing FHB Resistance in Barley
item Epidemiological Analysis of Wheat Stem Rust
item Evaluating Integrated Management Strategies for Fusarium Head Blight in Virginia
item Evaluation of IM Tools and UFT for FHB & DON in Indiana
item Evaluation of Integrated Management Programs and Fungicides for Fusarium Head Blight & DON in Indiana
item Evaluation of Sorghum Polyphenols and their End-use in Food Safety and Human Health Applications
item Expanding FHB Outreach with Crop Protection Network
item Extra soft eastern U.S. soft wheat quality for making cookies, crackers, and cakes of improved quality
item FHB Integrated Management in Durum with Fungicides
item FHB Management and Fungicide Resistance Monitoring
item FHB Management in TN
item FHB Resistant Soft Red Winter Wheat Varieties - KY
item Forecasting Models for Wheat Fusarium Head Blight
item Functional Genomic Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interaction in Cereal Rust Fungi
item Fungal Host-Pathogen Interactions and Disease Resistance in Cereal Crops
item Fungal Host-pathogen Interactions, Phylogeography and Microbiomes of Cereal Diseases
item Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat Cultivars for the Gulf Coast Region.
item Fusarium Head Blight Breeding Research at North Carolina State University
item Fusarium Head Blight Investigation in Tennessee
item Fusarium Head Blight Management and Risk Assessment
item Fusarium Head Blight Management in Kentucky
item Fusarium Head Blight Management in Kentucky
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 Resistance Breeding at MSU
item Fusarium Mycotoxins Management in Sprouted Cereal Grains
item Genetic Associations of the Quality Traits of Eastern Soft Wheat & Development of Germplasms Carrying Novel Functional and Agronomic Characteristics
item Genetic Characterization and Field Evaluation of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in Spring Wheat and Durum Wheat
item Genetic Characterization of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Barley
item Genetic Improvement of Small Grains and Characterization of Pathogen Populations
item Genetic Improvement of Small Grains and Characterization of Pathogen Populations
item Genetic Profiles of Easten U.S. Soft Wheat (ESW) for Achieving Improved Protein Functionality under Increased Grain Yield
item Genetic Resistance and Fungicides to Manage Scab
item Genetic Resistance and Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Intermountain West
item Genetic Transformation of Cereal Crops
item Genetics and Management of FHB in Small Grains
item Genetics of Aggressiveness in Fusarium graminearum
item Genome-enabled Selection for Host Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance
item Genomic Selection for Stable FHB Resistance in Winter Wheat and Barley
item Genomics Approaches to Developing Scab Resistant Barley and Wheat
item GrainGenes- A Global Data Repository for Small Grains
item hCoordinated IPM for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON in SRWW - Wisconsin
item High Fidelity/Temporal Detection of Field Fusarium Head Blight (FHB)
item Identifying and Characterizing the Role of Alternate Hosts in Cereal Rust Propagation
item Impacts of Single Kernel NIR Sorting on Hard Winter Wheat Quality, Flour Functionality and Applications
item Improve Hessian Fly Resistance of Southern Soft Red Winter Wheat - Georgia
item Improve Hessian Fly Resistance of Southern Soft Red Winter Wheat - Louisiana
item Improve Hessian Fly Resistance of Southern Soft Red Winter Wheat - South Carolina
item Improvement of Oat Germplasm for Resistance/Tolerance to Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Utilizing Marker-Assisted-Selection Breeding
item Improvement of Oat Germplasm for Resistance/Tolerance to Yellow Dwarf Viruses
item Improving Abiotic and Biotic Stress Tolerance of Small Grains
item Improving Phenotyping Accuracy Using Artificially Intelligent Technologies and Innovative Method
item Improving Small-Grain Disease Management in North Carolina
item Improving Wheat Resistance to Hessian Fly - Georgia
item Improving Wheat Resistance to Hessian Fly - Lousiana
item Improving Wheat Resistance to Hessian Fly - South Carolina
item Improving Wheat Resistance to Hessian Fly - Texas
item Increasing Genetic Gain for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance
item Inheritance and Introgression in Fusarium graminearum
item Institutional Biological Safety Committee (IBC) Agreement - Purdue University
item Integrated and Biological Strategies to Reduce Fusarium Head Blight and DON in Wheat
item Integrated Barley Scab Screening and FHB Pathogen Biology
item Integrated FHB and DON Management Strategies
item Integrated FHB Management in Minnesota
item Integrated FHB Management in ND Small Grains and Facilitation of Information
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in the Intermountain West
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight in New York
item IPM and Forecasting for FHB and DON in Wheat for Wisconsin
item Management of Diverse Germplasm and Associated Descriptive Information in the USDA Agricultural Research Service National Small Grains Collection
item Management of the USWBSI Networking & Facilitation Office
item Managing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Through Lab and Field Studies
item Milling and Baking Quality of Wheat Grains at Different Stages of Post-Maturity
item Mixing Energy Requirements of Wheat Flour - A Study on Experimental Mixing and Scale-Up Prediction
item Mondelez Soft Wheat Quality
item Monitoring and Characterizing Cereal Rust Pathogens and Their Host Resistance
item Monitoring Cereal Rust Development on Alternate Hosts
item Monitoring Incursion of Wheat Stem Rust of Foreign Origin
item Multi-Location Evaluation of Winter Oat Germplasm
item Multi-modal Prediction and Cross-scale Monitoring of Wheat Rust Disease at the Field Level
item Mycotoxin Diagnostic Services at Virginia Tech
item Mycotoxin Testing Services at Virginia Tech
item New Uses for Low Falling Number Hard Winter Wheat and Mechanism Study
item NIFA CAP for Innovation in Genomic Technology to Accelerate Breeding: Leveraging high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping technologies
item Optimization of Hard Winter Wheat Quality Data for Commercial Wheat Line Development
item Optimizing U.S. Manufactured Spray Drone Applications
item Protein and Kernel Hardness Profiles of Eastern Soft Wheat Desirable for Making Noodles and Tortilla
item Regulation of Deoxynivaleno Biosynthesis
item Regulation of Deoxynivalenol Biosynthesis
item Regulation of Plant Infection and DON Biosynthesis in Fusarium graminearum
item Resistant Wheat Germplasm Adapted to GA and U.S. Southeast
item Resources for Gene Identification and Validation
item Risk-based Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight
item Scab Resistant Variety Development and Testing
item Scab Resistant Wheat Germplasm Adapted to GA and Southeast
item Scalable Phenotyping for Fusarium Head Blight
item Surveillance and Analysis of Stem Rust on Hybrid and Parental Barberries
item Surveillance, Pathogen Biology, and Host Resistance of Cereal Rusts
item Ug99 Surveillance Through California Sentinel Plots
item Ug99 Surveillance Through California Sentinel Plots
item Ug99 Surveillance Through Sentinel Plots
item Ug99 Surveillance Through Sentinel Plots
item Understanding and enhancing resistance to wheat powdery mildew
item Use of Modern Breeding to Create FHB Resistant Cultivars
item Use of Traditional and Genomic Plant Breeding to Improve Fusarium Head Blight Resistance Soft Winter Wheat
item Using Genetic Resistance and Fungicides for Managing Fusarium Head Blight in Louisiana
item USWBSI Networking and Facilitation Office Organizational Management
item USWBSI Wheat Transformation/Gene Editing Facility
item Wheat Crop Improvement for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance by Cytogenetics
item Wheat Pathogen Population and Microbiome Studies to enhance Crop Profitability
item Wheat Stem Rust Gap Analysis and Laboratory/Field Research Project
item Winter Small Grains Breeding for FHB Resistance for South Dakota