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Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
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
Canola
Carrot
Catfish
Cheese
Chemurgic Crops
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Clothing and textiles, general
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)
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
Invertebrates, general/other
Kenaf
Kiwi
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Lesquerella
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
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 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
Barley
item Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat for Improved Livelihoods
item Adapting Agricultural Databases for Genome Features
item Advancing Establishment of an Introduced Parasitoid for Biocontrol of Drosophila Suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item Advancing Establishment of an Introduced Parasitoid for Biocontrol of Drosophila Suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item Advancing Establishment of an Introduced Parasitoid for Biocontrol of Drosophila suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item Advancing establishment of an introduced parasitoid for biocontrol of Drosophila suzukii in Mid-Atlantic States
item Advancing Field FHB Phenotyping Capabilities
item Advancing Technologies for Grain Trait Measurement and Storage Preservation
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 Barley Cultivars for California with improved Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance
item Barley Exosome Cataloging by Proteomics and RNAseq
item Barley Fusarium Head Blight Resistance Genomics
item Barley Head Blight Disease Evaluation at Minnesota Nursery
item Barley Pest Initiative - New York
item Barley Pest Initiative - Ohio
item Barley Pest Initiative - Virginia
item Barley Pest Initiative in Montana: Breeding for Resistance
item Barley Pest Research Initiative for Spot Blotch, Bacterial Leaf Streak, Net Blotch, Stem Rust, and Other Barley Pathogens
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 Biology, Ecology, Genetics, and Genomics of Introduced Species for Biological Control of Invasive and Other Insect Pests
item Breeding Fusariam Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat Varieties for Montana
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat and Barley
item Breeding Fusarium Head Blight Resistant Spring and Winter Barley
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 Characterization of Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat and its Relatives
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 Cooperative Research for Screening and Development of Wheat Germplasm with Improved Resistance to Rust Diseases
item Cooperative Research Program on Fish Nutrition and Diet Development
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 Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Wheat and Barley
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 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 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 Scab Resistant Wheat and Barley via Genomics
item Developing Stem Rust Resistant Barley Germplasm
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 biological control methods for control of spotted lanternfly
item Development of Biological Control Methods for Control of Spotted Lanternfly
item Development of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat and Barley for the NE U.S.
item Development of Fusarium Head Blight Control Strategies to Support East African Agriculture
item Development of Genomic Tool for Cereal Crop Improvement
item Development of New Biotech Traits in Wheat for Resistance against Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus
item Diagnostic Services for Deoxynivalenol
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 Elucidating the Grape Malate Tonoplast Transporter: A Targeted Approach for Controlling Fruit & Wine Acidity & Improving Grapevine Tolerance
item Engineering Gene-for-Gene Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat and Barley (Rothamsted)
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 Enhancing Barley and Oat Productivity, Quality, and Stress Resistance
item Enhancing Control of Stripe Rusts of Cereal Crops
item Enhancing Resistance to Fungal Pathogens in Small Grain Germplasm
item Enriching and Understanding the Wheat Genome by Inducing Secondary Homoeologous Recombination
item Evaluation of Corn DDGS in Practical Feeds of Tilapia
item Examination of The Nutritional Value of Novel Sorghum Protein Concentrates
item Expanding the Cover Crop Breeding Network: New Species and Traits for Organic Growers (Corvallis)
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 Function, Structure and Regulation of Membrane Transport Proteins Mediating Plant Mineral Nutrition and Abiotic Stress Responses
item Functional Analysis of Genes in the Wheat Pathogen Zymoseptoria Tritici
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 in Idaho and Impact on Small Grains Host Species
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 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 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 Transformation of Cereal Crops
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 of Host and Host-Pathogen Interaction in Cereal Rust Fungi
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 Management of Pathogens of Wheat and Barley in Idaho
item Identification of New Sources of Resistance to Crown and Stem Rusts in Wild and Cultivated Oat Species
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 and Deploying Oat Stem Rust Genes
item Identifying the Underlying Biochemical Mechanisms that Lead to Low Falling Number in Wheat
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 Improved Processes and Technologies for Comprehensive Utilization of Specialty Grains in Functional Food Production for Digestive Health and Food Waste Reduction
item Improvement of Barley Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight, Stripe Rust, and Hessian Fly
item Improvement of Barley Resistance to Spot Form Net Blotch and Stripe 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 Improving Abiotic and Biotic Stress Tolerance of Small Grains
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 Nutrient Utilization to Increase the Production Efficiency and Sustainability of Rainbow Trout Aquaculture
item Improving Small-Grain Disease Management in North Carolina
item Institutional Biological Safety Committee (IBC) Agreement - Purdue University
item Integrated Analysis for Identifying Barley Lines with Superior Malting Quality
item Integrated FHB and DON Management Strategies
item Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in the Intermountain West
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 and Molecular Mapping of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat and Barley Type of
item Investigating the Effects of Climate Change on Soft White Wheat Development and End-use Quality
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 Management of Diverse Germplasm and Associated Descriptive Information in the USDA Agricultural Research Service National Small Grains Collection
item Management of Fungal Pathogens of Barley in Washington State
item Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON in New England
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 Measuring the Impact of Egg Parasitoids on Emerald Ash Borer and Other Agrilus Pests in the U.S.
item Microbiome antagonism of Fusarium Head Blight
item Mixing up an Optimal Diet for White Sturgeon Grow-out Year 2
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-modal Prediction and Cross-scale Monitoring of Wheat Rust Disease at the Field Level
item Mycotoxin Testing Services at Virginia Tech
item National Plant Diseases Recovery System
item Nitrogen Response of Oat North American Elite Germplasm
item Northwest-Adapted Barleys for Resistance to Stem Rust (UG99)
item Pacific Northwest Herbicide Resistance Initiative
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 Prevention of Obesity Related Metabolic Diseases by Bioactive Components of Food Processing Waste Byproducts and Mitigation of Food Allergies
item Rearing, Identification, and Evaluation of Emerald Ash Borer Larval Parasitoid Spathius Agrili Collected from its Established Areas in Tennessee
item Regulatory Mechanisms Controlling Plant Development, Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses, and Microbiome Interactions
item Regulatory Networks in Cereal Host-Fungal Pathogen Interactions
item Relating Wheat Genotypes and Phenotypes
item Resistance to Barley Stripe Rust and BYDV in Cultivated and Wild Barley
item Resistance to BYDV in Oat
item Robotic Delivery (SKUNK) for Pest Management in Food Processing Facilities
item Silflower Seed Utilization for High-Value Applications
item Sorting of Haploid Maize Kernels for Accelerated Maize Development
item Spring Malting Barley Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight and Spot Form Net Blotch
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 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 Tar Spot of Corn: Characterizing the Ecology and Epidemiology of an Understudied and High-Profile Disease
item Temporal Control of Immunity to Powdery Mildew in Barley
item Temporal Control of Immunity to Powdery Mildew in Barley
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 Sentinel Plots
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 Disease Early Warning Advisory System (DEWAS)
item Wide Crosses and Speed Breeding in Wheat
item Winter Peas in the Wheat-Fallow Region of the Pacific Northwest: Benefits to Soil Health and Cropping Systems