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Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Apricot
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
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) – Greenhouse Gas Research Network – Plains Area Cropland Emissions (Mandan)
item Agricultural Water, Land Retirement, and Habitat on the Pacific Flyway: A Non-market Value Assessment
item Applications of Innovative Sensors to Quantify Atmospheric and Subsurface Fluxes of Water, Energy, and Contaminants
item Assessing Legacy P Fate on the Delmarva
item Assessing the Fate of Metal Oxide Associated Contaminants During Managed Aquifer Recharge
item Beyond Static Metabolic Maps - Understanding the Cellular Organization and Dynamics of Lipid Flux for Enhanced Seed Oil Production
item Calibration and Validation of In Situ Soil Moisture Sensors at Marena Oklahoma
item CEAP Wetlands Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Regional Study
item Characterization of a Novel Triacylglycerol Remodeling Pathway for Accumulation of Industrially Valuable Fatty Acids in Physaria Fendleri
item Climate-resilient Sustainable Irrigated and Dryland Cropping Systems in the Semi-arid Northern Great Plains
item Collaborative Food Production Systems Research
item Commercial Products from Lipids and Fibers
item Creation of Enhanced-Value Cotton Germplasm via Modulation of Cyclopropyl Fatty Acid Accumulation
item Creation of Enhanced-Value Cotton Germplasm via Modulation of Cyclopropyl Fatty Acid Accumulation
item Developing Biofuels and New Industrial Crops for Sustainable Semi-arid Agricultural Systems
item Development of New Value-Added Processes and Products from Advancing Oilseed Crops
item Development of Novel Cottonseed Products and Processes
item Developmental and Environmental Control Mechanisms to Enhance Plant Productivity
item Enhance Breeding Efficiency through Doubled Haploids Technology
item Enhancing Specialty Crop Irrigation: Advancing Evapotranspiration Forecasting with Satellites and Machine Learning
item Evaluating Models of Radiation Transfer and Carbon-Water Exchange in Vineyard and Orchard Canopies
item Examining Cold-Season Processes Over Agricultural Lands Using Radar Data
item Examining Perennial Crop Physiology, Evapotranspiration, and Carbon Dynamics Using Surface-based Measurements and Proximal Remote Sensing Techniques
item Fast Pyrolysis of Agricultural Wastes and Advanced Pretreatment of the Pyrolytic Aqueous Phase
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies on Croplands - Choptank River Watershed (Beltsville)
item Genetic Improvement of Seed Yield and Oil Content in Carinata, A Promising Low In-put, Non-food Oilseed Feedstock for Bio-based Fuels and Products
item Government Owned Vehicle and Equipment Use by Non-federal Employees for Collaborative Research
item Ground-based Evapotranspiration Observations in Support of Remote Sensing-based ET toolkit for Improved Irrigation Management in Vineyards
item Improved Agroecosystem Efficiency and Sustainability in a Changing Environment
item Improvement of Sclerotinia Disease Resistance and Management
item Integrative Genomic and Biological Approaches to Detect and Manage Emerging Foreign Fungal and Oomycete Plant Pathogens
item Linking Climate Change Impacts on Forest Health, Fire Risk, and Vegetation and Snow Dynamics in California
item Linking Ground Based and Remotely Sensed Stress Physiology of California Woody Perennial Crops
item Machine Learning for Unearthing Environmental Drivers of Soil Moisture Dynamics and Scaling to Hillslope and Remote Sensing Observations
item Management of Crop Genetic Resources and Descriptive Information
item Measuring, Modeling, and Mitigating Pollutants in Agroecosystems and Surrounding Landscapes
item Monitoring Aquifer Recharge Dynamics in the Deep Vadose zone using Borehole Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging
item New and Improved Co-Products from Specialty Crops
item New High-Value Biobased Materials with Applications Across Industry
item Nonequilibrium Processes Influencing Contaminant Fate During Managed Aquifer Recharge
item NSI: Characterizing and Bioengineering Soybean Phenylpropanoid Pathway Genes for Resistance Against Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum
item NSI: Development of RNA Fungicides for Management of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on Canola
item NSI: Exploiting Small Cysteine-rich Antifungal Peptides for Management of White Mold Disease in Soybean
item NSI: Improving Resistance of Spring Canola to Sclerotinia Stem Rot
item NSI: Introgression and Pyramiding of Sclerotinia Stem Rot Disease Resistant Gene(s) into Canola Cultivars
item NSI: Less is More: Removing R-gene Mediated Susceptibility to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Soybean
item NSI: Manipulating Endogenous Host Pathways to Enhance White Mold resistance in Brassicaceae
item Quantifying Land-Atmosphere Fluxes of Carbon, Water, and Energy in Woody Perennial Cropping Systems
item Remediation and Conversion of Apple Snail Waste via Pyrolysis
item Rethinking California’s Managed Aquifer Recharge Beyond Flat Terrains: A Multi-Method Assessment of Hillslope Processes
item Spatial and Ecological Considerations for Groundwater Markets and Managed Recharge
item Sustainable Soils for Healthy Communities and Climate Resilience in the Semi-Arid West
item The Mid-Atlantic Wetland Conservation Effects Assessment Project
item The Midwestern Hemp Research Collaborative: Participatory Research and Extension for Sustainable Hemp Production Systems (BOR)
item Thermo-Catalytic Biorefining
item Transdisciplinary Research that Improves the Productivity and Sustainability of Northern Great Plains Agroecosystems and the Well-Being of the Communities They Serve
item Using MESA as a Tool to Elucidate Wetland N Fluxes in Agricultural Landscapes
item Watershed Legacy N – Source Determination and Influencing Factor Assessment