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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
Barley
item Accelerating Wheat Breeding with Pan-Genome and High-Throughput Genotyping Resources
item Adaptive Differentiation in Native North American Barley
item Advancing Establishment of an Introduced Parasitoid for Biocontrol of Drosophila suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item Advancing Field FHB Phenotyping Capabilities
item Advancing Sustainable Technologies to Improve End-Use Quality of Underutilized and Climate-Resilient Food Crops for Value-Added Food and Consumer Products
item Advancing winter barley for resilient agriculture
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 Alfalfa Seed Utilization for Human Food
item Analyses of Relationship Between the Vascular Characters and the Barley Winter Hardiness
item Approaches to Improving Barley Health in Pennsylvania
item Approaches to Reduce the Impact of FHB in Delaware
item Barley Cultivars for California with improved Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance
item Barley Exosome Cataloging by Proteomics and RNAseq
item Barley Head Blight Disease Evaluation at Minnesota Nursery
item Barley Pest Initiative - Advancing Resistance and Understanding Pathogenicity of Bacterial Leaf Streak
item Barley Pest Initiative - Virginia
item Barley Pest Initiative - Virginia
item Barley Pest Initiative in Montana: Breeding for Pest Resistance
item Barley Resiliency Initiative in Montana: Breeding for Drought and Heat Resistance
item Barley Stripe Rust, Scald, and BYDV Resistance in Wild and Cultivated Barley
item Barley Yield, Grain Quality, and Metabolome Response to Sulfur Fertilization Rate and Product
item Better Trap Design, Identification Automation, and Spatial Monitoring for Better Stored Product Insect Pest Control
item Biochemistry and Physiology of Crop Adaptation to Soil-Based Abiotic Stresses
item Biology and Control of Weeds in the Pacific Northwest
item Breeding FHB Resistant Winter Wheat for the NE U.S.
item Breeding Fusariam Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat Varieties for Montana
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Spring Wheat
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat and Barley
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight Resistant Spring and Winter Barley
item Breeding Spring and Winter Barley with Lower DON
item Building Genomic Resources to Enable Molecular Breeding of Small Grains
item California-Adapted Barleys for Resistance to Stem Rust (UG99) - An Integrated Effort
item Characterization and Identification of Barley Resistance Genes to Spot Form Net Blotch
item Characterization and Identification of Broad-spectrum Resistance to Spot Form Net Blotch of Barley
item Characterization of Host-range Defining Factors in Xanthomonas translucens
item Characterization of Necrotrophic Effectors in the Parastagonospora nodorum-wheat Interaction
item Chloroplast Stress Response for FHB Resistance
item Climate-adaptive Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Establishment of Diverse Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Plantings in Drylands
item Climate-adaptive Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Establishment of Diverse Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Plantings in Drylands
item Collaborative Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) Oversight between the University of Idaho and ARS Aberdeen location
item Control of Stripe Rusts of Cereal Crops
item Corn Mycotoxin Mitigation Initiative
item Corn Mycotoxin Mitigation Initiative
item Correlation Between Beta-glucan Hydrolase Activity in Seedling and Malt Beta-glucan Content
item Curation of Nutrient-Associated Enzymes and Machine Learning Analysis of Mutational Effects in Enzymatic Activity in Wheat and Barley Pangenomes
item Deciphering and Improving Cereal Resistance to Rust Diseases Using Genome Editing Tools
item Demonstration of Extruded Waxy Grain Sorghum-Based Aquatic Feed for Pre-Commercial Validation as a Sustainable Carbohydrate Source for Rainbow trout
item Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Wheat and Barley
item Deploying FHB Resistance in California Bread Wheat
item Determining the Roles of Fusarium Effector Proteases in Plant Pathogenesis
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 Malting Barley with Reduced Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON
item Developing More Durable Wheat Rust Resistant Germplasm
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 an Immunoassay for Wheat Alpha-amylase
item Development of Barley Germplasm with Multiple Disease Resistance
item Development of Barley Germplasm with Multiple Disease Resistance
item Development of Biological Control Methods for Control of Spotted Lanternfly
item Development of Disease-Resistant Bread Wheat for Mid-Atlantic Region
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 Genomic Tool for Cereal Crop Improvement
item Diagnostic Services for Deoxynivalenol
item Discovery of novel resistance sources and QTL mapping for BYDV resistance in barley and oats
item Disease Management Strategies of Soilborne Diseases in Dryland Wheat
item DON and Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in North American Winter Barleys
item Drought Shapes the Dryland Root Metabolome and Microbiome to Protect Against Biotic and Abiotic Stress
item Ecology and Genomics of Soilborne Pathogens, Beneficial Microbes, and the Microbiome of Wheat, Barley, and Biofuel Brassicas
item Economic Optimization of Irrigation and Fertilizer Nitrogen Management Strategies for Semi-arid Croplands
item Efficient Methods for Small Grains Cultivar Production
item Elucidating the Grape Malate Tonoplast Transporter: A Targeted Approach for Controlling Fruit & Wine Acidity & Improving Grapevine Tolerance
item Elucidating Transkingdom Microbial Community Assembly in the Barley Phyllosphere During Fusarium Infection
item Engineering Sustainable 3D Scaffolds for Enhancing Delivery and Growth of Probiotics in the Gut
item Enhance Barley Breeding and Pest Research Capabilities
item Enhance Wheat Germplasm through Characterizing, Introgressing, and Engineering Stem Rust Resistance
item Enhancement of Cereal Grain Quality, Processing, and Evaluation for Malting, Brewing, and Distilling
item Enhancing Barley and Oat Productivity, Quality, and Stress Resistance
item Enhancing Barley Resiliency through Genetic Improvement of Preharvest Sprout Tolerance, Malting Efficiency, and Malt Quality
item Enhancing Control of Stripe Rusts of Cereal Crops
item Enhancing Wheat Resistance and Production on Acidic Soils
item Enhancing Wheat Resistance and Production on Acidic Soils
item Evaluating Integrated Management Strategies for Fusarium Head Blight in Virginia
item Evaluation of Corn DDGS in Practical Feeds of Tilapia
item Examination of The Nutritional Value of Novel Sorghum Protein Concentrates
item Explore Novel RNA Strategies Using Fungal Endophyte to Control Mycotoxin Contamination of Corn
item Field Research for Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Small Grains
item Field Screening of Barley Plants Transformed with Wheat FHB Resistance Genes
item Forecasting Models for Wheat Fusarium Head Blight
item Functional Comparison of Allelic Variants of Acid Membrane Transport Proteins Dictating Differences in Fruit Acidity
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) Research Community Barley Genetic Engineering Facility
item Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance for Montana Barley
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 Research in Delaware
item Fusarium Head Blight Screening and Molecular Analysis of Barley Resistance
item Fusarium Mycotoxins Management in Sprouted Cereal Grains
item Genetic Characterization of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Barley
item Genetic Enhancement of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in Barley
item Genetic Improvement for Resistance to Aphids and Major Diseases in Wheat, Barley, and Sorghum in the Great Plains
item Genetic Improvement of Small Grains and Characterization of Pathogen Populations
item Genetic Improvement of Small Grains and Characterization of Pathogen Populations
item Genetic Improvement of Small Grains and Characterization of Pathogen Populations
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 and Phenomics of Pacific Northwest Weeds
item Genetics of Aggressiveness in Fusarium graminearum
item Genome-enabled Selection for Host Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance
item Genome-wide Association Mapping of Genes for Powdery Mildew Resistance in Oat
item Genomic and Genetic Research on Wheat Germplasm with Resistance to Abiotic and Biotic Stress
item Genomic Selection for Stable FHB Resistance in Winter Wheat and Barley
item Genomics Approaches to Developing Scab Resistant Barley and Wheat
item Genomics, Genetic Diversity and Ecology of Plant Pathogens and Biocontrol Agents in Northwest Cereal-Based Cropping Systems
item GrainGenes- A Global Data Repository for Small Grains
item Harnessing Multi-omics for Augmenting Seed Quality and Stress Tolerance in Barley
item High Fidelity/Temporal Detection of Field Fusarium Head Blight (FHB)
item Host-Pathogen Interactions Affecting Wheat and Barley
item Identification and Control of Soilborne Pathogens of Wheat and Barley Continuation
item Identification and Management of Pathogens of Wheat and Barley in Idaho
item Identification and Management of Pathogens of Wheat and Barley in Idaho Continuation
item Identification of Fusarium species associated with decline of cold-hardy interspecific grapevines
item Identification of New Sources of Resistance to Crown and Stem Rusts in Wild and Cultivated Oat Species
item Identification of Viral and Wheat Factors Involved in Synergistic Interactions between Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus and Triticum Mosaic Virus
item Identification, Characterization, and Utilization of Priority Traits for the Genetic Improvement of Winter Wheat and Barley Germplasm Adapted to the Great Plains
item Identifying and Characterizing the Role of Alternate Hosts in Cereal Rust Propagation
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 Improvement of Barley Resistance to Spot Form Net Blotch, Fusarium head blight, stripe rust, Hessian fly, and leaf rust
item Improvement of Disease and Pest Resistance in Barley, Durum, Oat, and Wheat Using Genetics and Genomics
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 barley resiliency to combat abiotic stresses and malting quality
item Improving Durum Wheat Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight Using Genome Editing Technology
item Improving FHB Resistance in UNL Wheat and Barley
item Improving Food Safety by Controlling Mycotoxin Contamination and Enhancing Climate Resilience of Wheat and Barley
item Improving Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in Barley
item Improving seed quality testing to facilitate release of better oat varieties
item Improving Small-Grain Disease Management in North Carolina
item Improving Wheat Resistance to Hessian Fly - South Carolina
item Inheritance and Introgression in Fusarium graminearum
item Institutional Biological Safety Committee (IBC) Agreement - Purdue University
item Integrated FHB and DON Management Strategies
item Integrated FHB Management in Minnesota
item Integrated Management of FHB and DON in Barley in New England
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in the Intermountain West
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight in New York
item Introgression and Molecular Mapping of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat and Barley Type of
item Investigating Genomic and Epigenomic Factors Shaping Resilience and Improvement in Small Grain Cereals
item Investigation of Novel Alternative Proteins for Salmonid Feeds: An ARS-1890 FRSP Collaboration
item Investigation of Viral Diseases of Barley and Wheat
item Leveraging High-Throughput Genotyping and Phenotyping Technologies to Accelerate Wheat Improvement
item Leveraging Interaction Between Exclusion and Internal Tolerant Mechanisms to Enhance Aluminum Resistance in Wheat
item Leveraging Interactions of Exclusion and Internal Tolerant Mechanisms to Enhance Wheat Adaptation to Acid Soils
item Management of Diverse Germplasm and Associated Descriptive Information in the USDA Agricultural Research Service National Small Grains Collection
item Management of Fungal Diseases of Barley in Washington State
item Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON in New England
item Management of Invasive Arthropod Pests and Diseases of Small Grains in Southern and Central Plains Climates
item Management of the USWBSI Networking & Facilitation Office
item Managing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Through Lab and Field Studies
item Measuring the Impact of Egg Parasitoids on Emerald Ash Borer and Other Agrilus pests in Georgia
item Measuring the Impact of Egg Parasitoids on Emerald Ash Borer and Other Agrilus pests in Louisiana
item Measuring the Impact of Egg Parasitoids on Emerald Ash Borer and Other Agrilus Pests in the U.S.
item Measuring the Impact of Egg Parasitoids on Emerald Ash Borer and Other Agrilus pests in the U.S.
item Microbiome and Resistome Response to Foliar Antibiotic Application in Commercial Citrus Production
item Microbiome antagonism of Fusarium Head Blight
item Mitigate Vomitoxin in U.S. Corn
item Modeling of Phosphine Fumigations in Shipping Containers for Humanitarian Aid
item Molecular Characterization of Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
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 National Plant Diseases Recovery System
item New Technologies for Quality Preservation and Improvement of Grain and Grain-based Products
item Nitrogen Response of Oat North American Elite Germplasm
item Pacific Northwest Herbicide Resistance Initiative
item Plant Carboxylesterases in DON Accumulation
item Plant-Fungal Interactions and Host Resistance in Fusarium Head Blight of Barley and Wheat
item Precise Genetic Edits of a Gene Regulating Seed Protein Content in Golden Promise Barley
item Preventing Low Falling Numbers in Washington Wheat through Preharvest Sprouting and LMA Tolerance
item Rapid Assessment of Root Rot Severity Using Multimodal Imaging and Deep Learning
item Rearing, Identification, and Evaluation of Emerald Ash Borer Larval Parasitoid Spathius agrili Collected from its Established Areas
item Regulatory Networks in Cereal Host-Fungal Pathogen Interactions
item Resilient Barley Initiative: Nutrient and Crop Protection Strategies for Barley Production in Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota
item Resistance to Barley Stripe Rust and BYDV in Cultivated and Wild Barley
item Resistance to barley stripe rust and BYDV in cultivated and wild barley
item Resistance to BYDV in Oat
item Resistance to Stripe Rust and BYDV from Wild Barley Germplasm for Breeding and Variety Development
item Resources for Gene Identification and Validation
item Scientific Cooperation Between Washington State University and the USDA-ARS in the USDA-ARS Plant Bioscience Research Building at Pullman
item Sorting of Haploid Maize Kernels for Accelerated Maize Development
item Stem rust resistance genes in fall-planted oat
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 Survey and recovery of native North American parasitoids attacking the invasive Asian longhorned beetle in South Carolina
item Sustainable Soils for Healthy Communities and Climate Resilience in the Semi-Arid West
item Synergistic Combination of Polyphenolics with Probiotics for Enhanced Delivery, Persistence and Functionality of Probiotic Bacteria
item The Genetics of Oat Seedling Response to Abiotic Stress
item Toward Improving Transformation and Editing in Triticum aestivum and Sorghum Bicolor
item Towards Development of Scab Resistant Barley Adapted for the State of South Dakota
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 the Molecular and Genetic Switches Controlling Stress Tolerance in Small Grain Cereals
item Understanding the Virulence Mechanisms of Cereal Pathogens
item USWBSI Networking and Facilitation Office Organizational Management
item Virus-Host-Vector Interactions of Barley/Cereal Yellow Dwarf Viruses
item Wheat and Barley Adaptation to a Changing Climate - Discovery of Genetic and Physiological Processes for Improved Crop Productivity and Quality
item Wheat Breeding and Variety Development (Wheat Improvement Team)
item Wheat Pathogen Population and Microbiome Studies to enhance Crop Profitability
item Wide Crosses and Speed Breeding in Wheat