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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
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
Upland cotton
item A Comparative Cost Analysis of Saw and High-Speed Roller Ginning
item Agricultural Research Projects Conducted at the Cropping Systems Research Laboratory and Texas Tech University
item Applied Agricultural Genomics and Bioinformatics Research
item Area-wide Management of Agricultural Pests
item Assessing the Impact of Biotic and Abiotic Stressors on Reniform Nematode Populations in the Mississippi Cotton Production System
item Assessment and Improvement of Soil Health under Modern Cropping Systems in the Mid-Southern United States
item Biological Control and Integrated Management of Invasive Arthropod Pests from Europe, Asia, and Africa
item Biologically-based Management Systems for Insect Pests and Pollinators in Agricultural Landscapes in the Southeastern Region
item Breeding Informatics to Benefit Agriculture
item Characterization and Introgression of Nematode Resistance into Upland Cotton
item Climate Adaptation and Sustainability in Switchgrass: Exploring Plant-microbe-soil Interactions Across Continental Scale Environmental Gradients
item Climate Stress Effects on Major Row Crops of Mississippi
item Closing the Yield Gap of Cotton, Corn, and Soybean in the Humid Southeast with More Sustainable Cropping Systems
item Combating Emerging Disease Threats for Cotton
item Computational Biology: Studying Species of Agronomic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Importance
item Conservation Systems to Improve Production Efficiency, Reduce Risk, and Promote Sustainability
item Continued Development of a Publicly Accessible Comprehensive Cotton Database
item Contributions of Climate, Soils, Species Diversity, and Management to Sustainable Crop, Grassland, and Livestock Production Systems
item Conversion of Cotton Apparel Wastes to Cellulose Nanofibers and Cellulose Nanocrystals
item Cooperative ARS-ALARC and UA-MAC Research with Local, Regional and National Application
item Cotton Co-products Processing to Increase Value and Improve Sustainability
item Cotton Genetic Resource Management and Genetic Improvement
item Cotton Leaf Roll Dwarf Virus Disease Management
item Cover Crops: The Cornerstone of Water Management in the Face of Increasing Demand and A Changing Climate
item Design and Building a Cover Crop Planter
item Developing a Haplotype-assisted Breeding System for Upland Cotton
item Developing a Haplotype-assisted Breeding System for Upland Cotton - Stoneville
item Developing a Seed Advance System to Support Next Generation Breeding Programs
item Developing Cotton Germplasm for U.S. Growers Resistant to Diseases and Environmental Stresses
item Developing Genome Editing Resources for Modifying Genes to Improve Priority Traits in Cotton
item Developing Genomic and Biological Resources to Characterize, Diagnose and Detect Emerging and Invasive Vectored Bacterial and Viral Plant Pathogens for Safeguarding U.S. Agriculture
item Developing Strategies for Resilient and Sustainable Crop, Water, and Soil Management in Semi-Arid Environments
item Development of Climate Resilient Germplasm and Management Tools for Sustainable Row Crop Production
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 Novel Fiber Quality Characterization Methods
item Development of Productive, Profitable, and Sustainable Crop Production Systems for the Mid-South
item Development of Semiochemical-based Trapping Methods for Insect Pests on Row Crops
item Ecological Genomics in Switchgrass
item Ecologically Sustainable Approaches to Insect Resistance Management in Bt Cotton
item Effective Cotton Genetics and Management Practices for Improved Cotton Quality and Production
item Effectiveness of Transgenic Crops for Control of Agronomically Important Pests
item Enhanced Cotton for Value-Added Applications
item Enhancing the Profitability and Sustainability of Upland Cotton, Cottonseed, and Agricultural Byproducts through Improvements in Pre-Ginning, Ginning, and Post-Ginning Processes
item Enhancing the Quality and Sustainability of Cotton Fiber and Textiles
item Enhancing the Sustainability of U.S. Cropping Systems through Cover Crops and an Innovative Information and Technology Network
item Enriching the Gene Pool of Upland Cotton
item Est. Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Cotton & Wheat Diseases & Mycotoxins Affecting Cotton to Better Inform Mgmt Decisions(TXAREC)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases & Affecting Cotton to Better Inform Management Decisions (Tulsa)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases & Affecting Cotton to Better Inform Management Decisions (U.GA)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases & Affecting Cotton to Better Inform Management Decisions (UAR)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases & Affecting Cotton to Better Inform Mgmt. Decisions (Clemson)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases & Mycotoxins Affecting Corn & Cotton to Better Inform Mgmt Decisions (LSU)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases & Mycotoxins Affecting Corn & Cotton to Better Inform Mgmt Decisions (MI)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases & Mycotoxins Affecting Corn & Cotton to Better Inform Mgmt Decisions (U.MO)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases Affecting Cotton to Better Inform Management Decisions (U.TN)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases and Affecting Cotton to Better Inform Management Decisions (U.FL)
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions
item Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions (Ohio)
item Evaluate Cotton Germplasm for Environmental Influence Under Extreme Climate Conditions
item Evaluating Conservation Practice Effects in an Integrated Crop-Livestock Production System
item Evaluation of Round Module Moisture Content Effects on Cotton Quality
item Exploiting Genetic Variation of Australian and African Diploid Accessions for American Tetraploid Cotton
item Exploring Microbial Symbioses for Reduced CH4 Emissions in Irrigated Drill Seeded Rice
item Exploring the Genetics of Drought Resistance with Field-based Phenomics and Biophysical Process-based Modeling
item Fusarium Wilt of Cotton: Pathogen Characterization, Virulence & Resistance Mechanism Determination, and Marker Assisted Resistance Breeding
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands) - (Jonesboro)
item Genetic Analysis and RNA Marker Development for FOV4 Resistance Breeding in Cotton
item Genetic Analysis of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum Race 4 Pathogenicity
item Genetic Drift in Peripheral and Source Bollworm Populations-Cornell University
item Genetic Drift in Peripheral and Source Bollworm Populations-Pennsylvania State University
item Genetic Drift in Peripheral and Source Bollworm Populations-Texas Agrilife
item Genetic Drift in Peripheral and Source Bollworm Populations-Tidewater Ag Res & Ext Ctr
item Genetic Mapping of Important Traits in Upland Cotton
item Genomic Selection is Looming: Building a Robust Genotype-to-Phenotype Platform to Revolutionize Public Cotton Breeding
item Genomic Selection is Looming: Building a Robust Genotype-to-Phenotype Platform to Revolutionize Public Cotton Breeding
item Genomic Selection is Looming: Building a Robust Genotypeto-Phenotype Platform to Revolutionize Public Cotton Breeding (Florence)
item Genomics of Malvaceae
item Group Behavior and Chemical Signaling as Drivers for Entomopathogenic Nematode Foraging and Infection Dynamics
item GxExM Systems Approach to Crop Disease Management
item High Performance Computing Related to Agricultural Research in Regard to Big Data, Geospatial Statistics, and Bioinformatics
item Identification of Semiochemicals for Regulation of Potentially Invasive Pests or Beneficial Organisms for the Control of Invasive Pests to the U.S.
item Identifying and Mitigating Emerging Disease Threats for Cotton
item Impacts of Bees on Yield Enhancement of Commonly Cultivated Field Crops
item Improved Biologically-Based Methods for Management of Native and Invasive Crop Insect Pests
item Improvement of Cotton through Genetic Base Diversification and Enhancement of Agronomic, Fiber, and Nematode Resistance Traits
item Improvements to Cotton Quality Measurement
item Improving Conservation Management Practices for Sustainable Production in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Improving Cotton Fiber Yield and Planting Seed Vigor Under Heat Stress Environments
item Improving Irrigated Crop Management System for Humid and Sub-humid Climates
item Improving Irrigated Crop Production in Southeast Missouri
item Improving Nutrient and Sediment Loss Modeling through Field Validation in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Improving Sustainability of Low-input Cropping Systems
item Improving the Production and Processing of Western and Long-Staple Cotton and Companion Crops to Enhance Quality, Value, and Sustainability
item Improving Water Use Efficiency and Grain Yield of Furrow-Irrigated Rice
item Influence of Soil Microbiota and Entomopathogenic Nematodes on Cotton Defensive Chemical Production
item Innovative Approaches for Value Added Cotton-Containing Nonwovens
item Innovative Technologies and Practices to Enhance Water Quantity and Quality Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the Southeastern Coastal Plain
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 Integrated Approaches to Manage Major Insect Pests of Southern Row Crops
item Integrated Management of Nematodes in Southeastern Field Crops
item Integrating Animal and Industrial Enterprise Byproducts in Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain Cropping Systems for Enhancing Productivity, Efficiency, and Resiliency of Agroecosystems
item Life After the Flood: Disrupting Rice Farming by Integrating Automated, LoT-Irrigation Technologies into a Low-Water-Use Production System
item Machine Learning Integration into Breeding Programs
item Maintenance, Distribution, and Utilization of Cotton Genetic Resources
item Microbial Communities in a Long-Term Agro-Ecosystem Research (LTAR) Aspirational Grazing System
item Modernizing Cotton and Other Crop Breeding Systems by Integrating Genomic Analyses
item Molecular and Genetic Approaches to Manage Cotton and Sorghum Diseases
item Molecular Characterization and Phenotypic Assessments of Cotton Fiber Quality Traits
item Molecular Genetic and Proximal Sensing Analyses of Abiotic Stress Response and Oil Production Pathways in Cotton, Oilseeds, and Other Industrial and Biofuel Crops
item National Predictive Modeling Tool Initiative
item National Predictive Modeling Tool Initiative’s Networking and Facilitation Office and Website
item Novel Approaches for Management of Row Crop Pests and Continued Boll Weevil Eradication
item Nutrient Limitation and Disturbance in C4 Grasslands
item On-Farm Potato Yield Mapping Using High Resolution UAV and Satellite Remote Sensing Images and Machine
item Optimizing the Management of Irrigated Cropping Systems in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Pheromone Components of the Pecan Weevil
item Predicting Nitrogen and Sulfur Deficiency in Corn using Optical Sensors and Weed Mapping with UAV Multispectral Sensors
item Preserving Water Quantity and Quality for Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
item Producing Upland and Pima Seed Cotton for ARS Research Studies
item Quantification Assays for Predictive Modeling Tool Initiative Samples
item Regional Breeders Testing Network
item Renewal and Advance of Cotton Genetic Resources Through Use of a Costa Rican Counter Season Nursery
item Research and Development of a Family of DressingstTo Address Battlefield Use with Cotton Sourced from the U.S.
item Science Curricula Through Education, Development and Outreach Programs
item Sequencing and Annotation of the Western Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus hesperus) Genome
item SNP-based Diagnostic Tools for Rapid Identification of the Boll Weevil (Anthonomus grandis grandis) and Other Anthonomus Species
item Southeast Partnership for Advanced Renewables from Carinata-SPARC
item Stimulation of Potentially Active Soil Microbes to Provide Maximum Soil Health
item Survey of Cotton Contamination at the Gin Stand Feeder Apron in Multiple Commercial Cotton Gins
item Sustainable Intensification of Cropping Systems on Spatially Variable Landscapes and Soils
item Sustainable Pest Management for Arid-Land Agroecosystems
item Sustainably Incorporating Hemp at Multiple Scales into Western U.S. Regional Economies along the Rural Route 97 Corridor
item Technologies to Protect and Manage Seed Cotton in Modules
item Testing and Development of Competitive High Quality Upland Cotton through Enhanced Ginning/Textile Processing Performance
item Thermal Effects on Mechanical Performance of Steels Used in Post-Harvest Processing
item USDA ARS Research Apprenticeship Program at University of Texas at Arlington
item Using Aerial Application and Remote Sensing Technologies for Targeted Spraying of Crop Protection Products
item Utilizing Conventional and Molecular Approaches to Enhance Seed and Fiber Quality Traits, and Conducting a National Cotton Variety Testing Program
item Water Management Strategies to Reduce C Footprint and Preserve High Productivity in Irrigated Rice Systems
item Weed Biology and Development of Improved Management Technologies for Invasive and Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
item Wireless Monitoring System for Real-time Insect Tracking