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Agave
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Apricot
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 North
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 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
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
Sheep, live animal
item Advanced Host Genomics: Nasal Shedding of Mycoplasma Ovipneumoniae and Multiple Data Uses to Benefit Sheep Research
item Alternate Iron Regulatory Pathways in Mycobacterium Avium subsp. Paratuberculosis
item Animal and Plant Health Research - Biosafety - Infectious Agent and Recombinant DNA Control
item Animal Protection and Care for Cattle, Horses, Goats, and Sheep
item Animal Studies in BSL-3 Containment at Pat Roberts Hall for Comparative Zoonotic Arbovirus Studies
item Antigen Presenting Neutrophils in Cattle
item Arbovirus Diagnosis and Vaccine Development and Evaluation
item Arbovirus Diagnosis Development and Evaluation
item ARS Research Sheep Grazing - USDA ARS U.S. Sheep Experiment Station and the USDA Forest Service Caribou-Targhee National Forest Agreement
item Assessing Arbovirus Effects on Sensory Function and Behavior of Female Culicoides Sonorensis Midges
item Biology and Management of Dipteran Pests of Livestock and Other Animals
item Biophotonics - The Application of Novel Imaging Methodologies to Livestock Production Research
item Biophotonics- The Application of Novel Imaging Methodologies to Livestock Production Research
item Carcass Traits and Muscle-Fiber Types of Lambs Managed in Traditional-Range and Artificial-Rearing Systems
item Cattle and Carcass Grading Correlation and Training Center
item Characterization of Antigens, Virulence Markers, and Host Immunity in the Pathogenesis of Johne’s Disease
item Chronic Wasting Disease Challenge
item Collaborative Animal Research between Kansas State University and ARS
item Collaborative Research Involving the Use of Biohazardous Materials, Biological Toxins, Non-Exempt rDNA, and/or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules
item Collection of Sheep Germplasm in the Mid-Atlantic Region
item Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics of Dipteran Pests Affecting Livestock and Humans
item Control Release Devices for Optimized Cattle Protection
item Cooperative Management of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail in Montana and Idaho
item Creating and Verifying Commercial Genetic Tests for Goats
item Creating and Verifying Commercial Genetic Tests for Goats and Rambouillet Sheep
item Developing a Systems Biology Approach to Enhance Efficiency and Sustainability of Beef and Lamb Production
item Developing a Systems Biology Approach to Enhance Efficiency and Sustainability of Beef and Lamb Production
item Developing Collaborative Research Partnerships with the BSL4 Zoonotic network (BSL4Znet): Responding to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
item Development and Testing of Mycobacterium Avium Subsp. Paratuberculosis Diva Vaccines in Dairy Cattle
item Development of a Population Genetics Pipeline for Characterizing Viral and Vector Population Diversity
item Development of a Transgenic Mouse that Expresses the Bovine Prion Polymorphism T231
item Development of Deoptimized Live Attenuated Foot-Mouth-Disease Virus Vaccine Candidates
item Development of Strategies to Control Tick-Borne Bacterial Pathogens of Livestock
item Diagnostic and Control Strategies for Malignant Catarrhal Fever
item Ecology of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
item Ecology of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) in North America
item Ecology of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) in North America
item Economic Assessments of Alternative Production
item Effects of Arbovirus Infection on Insect Feeding Behavior
item Engineered Probiotics for Farm Animal and Human Nematodes
item Enhanced Disease Vector Surveillance
item Enhancing Sheep Enterprises and Developing Rangeland Management Strategies to Improve Rangeland Health and Conserve Ecology
item Enhancing Sheep Production Efficiency Through Strategic Use of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies
item Epidemiological Workforce Development in Support of the National Agro and Bio-Defense Facility
item Establish, Develop and Coordinate a Network of University and Federal BSL-3/4 Large Animal and Laboratory Agricultural Research Facilities
item Establishing Innovative Strategies to Incorporate Crossbred Data into Genetic Evaluation of Sheep in the United States
item Evaluate Short- and Long-term Genetic Variation of Shiga Toxin-containing Escherichia coli O157:H7
item Evaluating Mastitis and Effects of Mastitis in Range-type Sheep Flocks
item Evaluation of Novel Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Vaccine Candidates with Broad Breadth of Protection - Phase II
item Evaluation of Sampling Methods for Detecting, Salmonella and Characterizing Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Salmonella and E. coli in Swine
item Federal Protective Service Support for Law Enforcement and Security of USDA, ARS, USMARC Compound, Clay Center, NE
item Fly-microbe Interactions Across Life History
item Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemiology in Asia and Africa
item Foot-and-Mouth-Disease Virus Vaccines with Broad Breadth of Protection Against Diverse Virus Strains
item Foreign Animal Disease Research and Development Activities to Address High Priority Transboundary Animal Diseases
item Forest Plan Amendment for Planning and Management of Domestic Sheep and Goat Grazing within the Range of Bighorn Sheep
item Genetic Characterization and Diagnostic Detection of Emerging Vesicular Stomatitis Virus in North America
item Genetic Evaluations for Sheep Longevity, Lifetime Productively, Growth Performance, and Product Quality
item Genetic Impact and Improved Diagnostics for Sheep and Goat Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
item Genetics of Insect Pests
item Genome Sequencing, Assembly and Annotation of the Gastrointestinal Nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis
item Genomic and Metagenomic Differences in Foodborne Pathogens and Determination of Ecological Niches and Reservoirs
item Genomic Intervention Strategies to Prevent and/or Treat Respiratory Diseases of Ruminants
item Genomics, Transcriptomics, and Microbiome Analysis of Dipteran Pests Affecting Livestock and Humans
item Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests Plan Revision - U.S. Agricultural Research Service Cooperating Agency Agreement
item Growth Efficiency and Carcass Traits of Breed-Composite Rams
item Identification of Host Factors and Immunopathogenesis of Pneumonia in Domestic and Bighorn Sheep
item Identification of Tick Colonization Mechanisms and Vaccine Development for Anaplasmosis
item Identifying Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles and Signatures in Screwworm and Related Flies to Develop Taxonomic Identification Keys and Enhanced Baits
item Identifying, Prioritizing, and Testing Vaccine Target Candidates for Blood-Feeding Nematode Parasites of Sheep and Humans
item Immune, Molecular, and Ecological Approaches for Attenuating GI Nematode Infections of Ruminants
item Immunodiagnostics to Detect Prions and Other Important Animal Pathogens
item Improvement of Theileria parva Sporozoite Vaccine against East Coast Fever
item Improving Resilience and Diversification of Small Farms Through Agroforestry and Specialty Crops
item Improving Sustainability of Forage-based Production Systems
item Increasing the Efficacy of the Ad5-FMD Vaccine Using a Multi-Gene Delivery System
item Infectious Disease Research Supporting Workforce Development for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility
item Institutional Biological Safety Committee (IBC) Agreement with the University of Kentucky
item Integrating Agroforestry into Small Farm Production Systems
item Interagency Agreement for Fire Management
item International Congress of Meat Science and Technology Conference
item Intervention Strategies to Support the Global Control and Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV)
item Invasive Mosquito Project
item Investigation of a PRNP Polymorphism on Susceptibility to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
item Japanese Encephalitis Virus Prevention and Mitigation Strategies
item Livestock Grazing in Rangeland Management Systems
item Longitudinal Data and Modeling to Support the Global Control and Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
item Maintaining and Refining Animal GRIN
item Mammalian Responses to Arboviruses and Sorghum Polyphenols
item Memorandum of Understanding Between the USDA, Agricultural Research Service and the USDA, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
item Molecular Analytical Methods Development to Support Arbovirus Research
item Molecular Approaches to Control Intestinal Parasites that Affect the Microbiome in Swine and Small Ruminants
item Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Ostertagia ostertagi Infection in Cattle
item National Animal Germplasm Program
item National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) Workforce Development
item National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Scientists Project
item Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement for Research Involving Animals
item Novel Techniques for Culicoides Vector Control and Evaluation
item Operation of NOAA Mesonet Weather Monitoring Station to Provide Critical Weather Data to Local NOAA Forecasters
item Optimizing the Biology of the Animal-Plant Interface for Improved Sustainability of Forage-Based Animal Enterprises
item Orbivirus Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, and Control Measures
item Pathobiology, Genetics, and Detection of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
item PICTUREE: Predicting Insect Contact and Transmission Using historical Entomological and Environmental Data
item Preliminary Study for the Reversion to Virulence Study of FMDV-LL3B3D-A24 Cruzeiro in Swine
item Quantitative Analyses of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Endemic Regions of Asia and Africa
item Recent Advances in Sequencing Technologies to Characterize the Respiratory Microbiome and Virome Associated with Bovine Respiratory Disease
item Research Supporting Workforce Development for the National Bio-Agro Defense Facility: Development of Novel Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus...Candidates
item Research Supporting Workforce Development for the National Bio-Agro Defense Facility: Virus-Host Interactions of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
item Rift Valley Fever Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, and Control Measures
item Role of N-Linked Glycosylation in the In Transmission and Differentiation of CWD Prions
item Sampling Screwworms from Endemic Regions
item SARS-CoV-2 Impact on Meat Production: A Farm to Plate Approach
item Screwworm Genetic Sexing Line Development
item Sequencing Genomes and Transcriptomes of Livestock Pests
item Simulation Modeling of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreaks in Livestock in the U.S.
item Smart Traps for Enhanced Disease Vector Surveillance
item Spray-formed Dissolving Microneedle Patches for Enhanced Stability and Needle-free Delivery of Vaccines
item Strategies to Optimize Meat Quality and Composition of Red Meat Animals
item Support Effort for Developing Scientific Information and New Technology to Solve High Priority Problems for U.S. Beef, Sheep, and Swine Industries
item Support Research Collaborations, Scientific Trainings, and Conferences for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
item Susceptibility of Pigs to FMD Infection via Natural Ingestion: Establishing Minimum Oral Infectious Dose and Evaluating...Mitigates
item Susceptiblity of Pigs to FMD Infection via Natural Ingestion: Establishing Minimum Oral Infectious Dose and Evaluating...Mitigants
item Sustainable Small Farm and Organic Grass and Forage Production Systems for Livestock and Agroforestry
item The Impact of Acute Subclinical Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus in Kenyan Cattle
item The Invasive Mosquito Project
item The Role of House Flies in Harboring and Disseminating Antimicrobial-Resistant (AMR) Bacteria at Kansas Cattle Operations
item The Role of Virus-vector Interactions in Emerging Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Outbreaks
item Towards Novel Acaricide Development Against Cattle Fever Tick: GPCR Target Validation and Identification of Chemical Leads
item Training of Biodefense Research Workforce for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF)
item Tri-Partite Collaborative: Characterization of the Respiratory Microbiome and Virome Associated with Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex
item Understanding and Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Poisonous Plants on Livestock Production Systems
item Understanding Cross-Reactive Responses Between Heterologous Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Strains in the Bovine Model
item Understanding Parasite Resistance in Organic Livestock and Using a Systems Approach for Control
item Understanding Parasite Resistance in Organic Livestock and Using A Systems Approach for Control
item Understanding Parasite Resistance in Organic Livestock and Using a Systems Approach for Control
item Understanding Pathogenesis and Epidemiology for Controlling Foreign Animal Diseases
item Understanding the Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Grazing Livestock Responses to Stress and Changes in Environment
item Updating Parameters for Foreign Animal Disease Transmission Modeling
item Use of Monoclonal Antibodies to Study Interaction Between Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus and Host Proteins During Infection
item Using Transcriptomics and Proteomics to Understand Arbovirus Effects on Midge Sensory Function
item Utilizing the University of Kentucky Animal Care and Use Committee
item UTMB-USDA Collaboration on Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks and Animals
item Validation of a novel method for the detection of select Salmonella serovars in raw meat enrichments
item Vector-Enhanced Arboviral Vaccines
item Vesicular Stomatitis as a Model for a Predictive Disease Ecology
item Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Disease vectors
item Veterinary Countermeasures Biologics Development Based on USDA Center for Veterinary Biologics Regulations for Successful Licensure of New Products
item Whole Genome Sequencing of the Face Fly, Musca Autumnalis