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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
Cassava (or manioc)
Catfish
Cheese
Chemurgic Crops
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
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
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
Florist crops, other
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
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
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
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
item A Pioneering Approach to Tick Control: Anti-tick Toxins Delivered via a Tick Transmissible Pathogen
item Analysis of Ectoparasites of White-tailed Deer for Bovine Diseases at IBWC Land Adjacent to Falcon Lake in Zapata County, Texas
item Assessing Immunity Correlates of Bm86 Vaccination in Cattle
item Behavioral and Physiological Study of Acaricides and Novel Chemical Control Agents against Ticks
item Cattle Fever Tick Research Laboratory - Moore Air Base
item Combining Bm86 with Additional Vaccine Targets to Improve Efficacy of Anti-Tick Vaccination and Block Ttransmission of Bovine Babeosis
item Deployed War Fighter Protection Program (2017)
item Deployed War Fighter Protection Program (2018)
item Deployed War Fighter Protection Program (2018)
item Develop Predictive Models of Potential Babesia Disease Spread in the U.S. to Assist in Mitigating Potential Future Outbreaks
item Development of Botanical-Based Pesticide to Control Pests of Medical Importance
item Development of Detection and Control Strategies for Bovine Babesiosis and Equine Piroplasmosis
item Development of Long-Lasting Medicated Rodent Bait Formulations to Control Ticks on the White-Footed Mouse and Other Host Species
item Development of Novel Preventive, Diagnostic, and Treatment Strategies for Theileriosis in Horses and Cattle
item Efficacy and safety studies using a 1% doramectin product and Bm86-based anti-cattle fever tick vaccine against cattle fever ticks
item Efficacy of Bm86 Vaccine in Horses for Controlling Rhipicephalus Infestation
item Environmentally-Friendly, Microbial and Plant-Based Agents for Mosquito Control
item Evaluation of New Acaricide Formulations against Immature Stages of the Black-Legged Tick
item Evaluation of New Anti-Tick Antigens on Rabbit for Control of Vector Tick Species
item Evaluation of USDA’s New Bait Treatment System (a.k.a. “TickLick”) for Use by White-Tailed Deer and Other wildlife in Natural Habitats
item Exploration in Africa for Biological Control Agents of Guineagrass an Invasive Weed that Facilitates the Survival of Cattle Fever Ticks in So. Texas
item Exploration in Africa for Biological Control Agents of Guineagrass; a Facilitator of Cattle Fever Tick Survival in South Texas
item Exploration in Vietnam for Natural Enemies of Asian Longhorned Tick and Black Legged Deer Tick of Importance in the United States
item Feed-through and Spray on Treatments of Insect Growth Regulators for Cattle and Wildlife
item Feed-through and Spray on Treatments of Insect Growth Regulators for Cattle and Wildlife
item Field Evaluation of the Remotely Activated Sprayer for Eradication of Cattle Fever Ticks (CFT) on Nilgai
item Field Surveys in Vietnam to Collect and Rear Biological Control Agents of Cattle Fever Ticks
item GPS Tracking of White-tailed Deer Movement and Tick Population Surveillance for Integrated Tick Management in the Suburban Landscape of Maryland
item GPS Tracking of White-tailed Deer Movement to Understand Tick-Host Interaction and Improve Lyme Disease Vector Control in Howard County
item Host Range Testing of Cattle Fever Tick Biological Control Agents
item Identification and Characterization of Bovine Antibody Responses to p67 Vaccination
item Identification of Babesia Gametocyte Chemoattractive Molecules
item Identification of Geographically Conserved Babesia bovis Vaccine Antigen Candidates
item Improvement of Theileria parva Sporozoite Vaccine Against East Coast Fever
item Integrated Eradication Efforts of the Cattle Fever Tick (CFT)
item Integrated Eradication Efforts of the Cattle Fever Tick (CFT)
item Integrated Pest Management of Cattle Fever Ticks
item Integrated Tick Management for Suppression of Blacklegged Tick Populations in the Suburban Landscape
item Interaction of a Long-acting Eprinomectin Product with BM86 Vaccination Against Cattle Fever Ticks
item Interaction of a Long-acting Eprinomectin Product with BM86 Vaccination Against Cattle Fever Ticks (Texas A&M)
item Laboratory Evaluation of Anti-Tick Antigens against Blacklegged Ticks Infesting Mice
item Laboratory Evaluation of Novel Chemical Compounds for Contact and Oral Toxicity against Four Major Tick Species
item Laboratory Tick Study and Field Evaluation of New Host-Targeted Tick Control Products
item Managing White-tailed Deer Density on Federal Land Adjacent to Falcon Reservoir to Control Cattle Fever Ticks
item Mechanisms of Tick-Host Interaction and Implications to Deer Tick Parasitism, Pathogen Transmission, and Tick Control
item Mite Systematics and Arthropod Diagnostics, with Emphasis on Adventive and Invasive Species
item Molecular Genetics Analysis of White-Footed Mouse Populations to Understand Host-Tick-Pathogen Interactions
item Multi-source Data Collection to Enhance Predictive Modeling for the Control of Cattle Fever Ticks
item Novel ‘Attract and Kill’ Baits for Disease Vectors of Zika and Dengue
item Novel ‘Attract and Kill’ Baits for Disease Vectors of Zika and Dengue
item Population Genetic Analysis of Cattle Fever Ticks Collected at IBWC Land Adjacent to Falcon Lake in Zapata County, Texas
item Preventing Bovine Babesiosis by Characterizing Fever Tick Acaricide Resistance and Genetic Variation Within Vaccine Candidate Antigens
item Sequencing Genomes and Transcriptomes of Livestock Pests
item Targeting Subdominant Rhoptry-associated Proteins of Babesia Bovis in a Subunit Vaccine to Protect Cattle Against Bovine Babesiosis
item Ticks and Human Health
item Towards Novel Acaricide Development Against Cattle Fever Tick: GPCR Target Validation and Identification of Chemical Leads
item Use of Immune Repertoire Capture™ Technology to Identify and Characterize Ig repertoires: Bovine Vaccination for Theileria parva
item Utilizing Bioinformatics and Genetic Transformation Approaches to Develop Novel Vaccines to Prevent Babesia bovis Acute Infection and Transmission
item Year 2 Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Funding - Development of Cattle Fever Tick Vaccine Based on the P-zero "P0" Antigen
item Year 2 Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Funding - Susceptibility of Rhipicephalus microplus to Nootkatone
item Year 2 Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Funding -Adapting Triode Atomizer to Spray Water-Based Acaricides
item Year 2 Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Funding – Evaluation of Anti-tick Activity of Vaccines Based on Novel Antigen Formulations
item Year 2 CFT Eradication Program Funding - Are Nilgai Antelope and Axis Deer Susceptible to Infection with a Virulent Strain of Babesia bovis?
item Year 2 CFTEP Funding - Continuation of Analytical Chemistry Research for 1% Doramectin Product and Bm86-Based Vaccine in Cattle Against Fever Ticks
item Year 2 CFTEP Funding - Continue Investigation on Interaction of Long Acting Eprinomectin Product with Bm86 Vaccination Against Cattle Fever Ticks
item Year 2 CFTEP Funding - Continue Investigation on Interaction of Long Acting Eprinomectin Product with Bm86 Vaccination Against Cattle Fever Ticks
item Year 2 CFTEP Funding - Managing White-tailed Deer Density on Federal Land Adjacent to Falcon Reservoir to Control Cattle Fever Ticks
item Year 2 CFTEP Funding - Modeling Treatment Strategies for Cattle-Nilgai-White-tailed Deer Interactions on South Texas Rangelands
item Year 2 CFTEP Funding-Continuation of Field Studies Using 1% Doramectin Product and Bm86-Based Vaccine Against Cattle Fever Ticks
item Year 2: Integrated Eradication Efforts of the Cattle Fever Tick (CFT)