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Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research
- Improving Boxwood Blight Mitigation through Innovation, Economic Analysis and Education
- Improving Boxwood Blight Mitigation through Innovation, Economic Analysis and Education
- Integrative Genomic and Biological Approaches to Detect and Manage Emerging Foreign Fungal and Oomycete Plant Pathogens
- Developing Genomic and Biological Resources to Characterize, Diagnose and Detect Emerging and Invasive Vectored Bacterial and Viral Plant Pathogens for Safeguarding U.S. Agriculture
- Long-Term Cooperation between ARS FDWSRU and APHIS PPCDL
- Improved Management of Cacao Mild Mosaic Virus (CaMMV) by Identifying Alternative Hosts Serving as Inoculum Reservoirs
- Filling the Gaps in Boxwood Blight Research
- Improved Understanding of Soilborne Oomycete Communities from Florida Citrus Production Areas
- Tools for the Identification and Detection of Graminicolous Downy Mildews, including the Select Agent Peronosclerospora philippinensis
- Diversity of Foreign Phytophthora Infestans Genotypes
- High Quality Genomic, Systematic, and Diagnostic Resources for the Select Agent Coniothyrium Glycines
- Evaluation and Validation of Internal Controls for Molecular Diagnostic Assays
- Expanding the Select Agent Coniothyrium glycines Culture Collection
- Characterization of Thecaphora frezzii Isolates in Argentina
- High-quality Visual and Molecular Diagnostic Resources for the Select Agent Coniothyrium Glycines: Year Two
- Genome Diagnostics for Magnaporthiopsis maydis: Enhancing Detection of Corn Late Wilt
- Building National Resources to Protect U.S. Corn From Claviceps gigantea and Ergot Disease
- Advancing Species-specific Diagnostics for Rapid Detection of Japanese and Korean Oak Wilt
Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory
- Plant-associated Nematode Management and Systematics and USDA Nematode Collection Curation
- Taxonomic Identification Of All Stages Of Nematodes
- Fungal Systematics and Diagnostic Resource Development for Safeguarding Plant Health
- Identification Methods for Ceratocystis Manginecans, Causal Agent of Mango Sudden Decline
- Generation of high-quality genomic resources for the causal agent of Japanese oak wilt Dryadomyces quercivorous
- Taxonomic Identification of all Stages of Nematodes
- Finding the Origin of Litylenchus Crenatae Mccanni, the Invasive Nematode Causing Widespread Decline of American Beech
- Targeted Gland Cell Transcriptomes of the Beech Leaf Disease Nematode
- Systematic Studies of Mycosphaerellaceae Fungi on Plants and Plant Products Intercepted at the U.S. Ports of Entry
- Systematics and Genomics of Plant Pathogens
- Taxonomic Identification of All Stages of Nematodes
- Assessment of Taxonomic Diversity of Pleosporalean Fungi Found in Plants and Plant Products Intercepted at The U.S. Ports of Entry
- Systematics and Genomics of Plant Pathogens
- Specimen Management System Development and Updates for U.S. National Fungus Collections
- Development and validation of molecular detection tools for the invasive root lesion nematode Pratylenchus fallax
Food Quality Laboratory
- Understand and Mitigate Fungicide Resistance in Penicillium spp
- System Approaches Using Genomics and Biology to Manage Postharvest Fruit Decay, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Mycotoxins to Reduce Food Loss and Waste
- Resolving Inoculum Sources and Evaluating Alternatives to Mitigate Postharvest Diseases, Food Losses, and Mycotoxin Contamination in Apple
- Development of Conventional and Organic Tools to Manage Postharvest Decay of Pome Fruits
Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory
Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory
- Discovery, Characterization, and Diagnostics of Endemic and Exotic Citrus Pathogens Using High Throughput Sequencing (HTS)
- Omics-Based Approach to Detection, Identification, and Systematics of Plant Pathogenic Phytoplasmas and Spiroplasmas
- A Comprehensive Survey of Flat Mite Transmitted Viruses in Different Hosts and in Brevipalpus spp. in Colombia
- AI-based Morphological Feature Analysis for Early and Rapid Diagnosis of Phytoplasma Diseases in Plants
- Fast and Accurate Identification of Grapevine Flavescence Dorée Phytoplasma Strains via MinION, a Portable Real-Time Device for DNA Sequencing
- Development of a qPCR Assay for Sensitive and Specific Detection of Three Major Phloem-limited Bacteria Infecting Citrus
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory
Crop Production and Protection
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Predictive Tools for Wheat Diseases and Support Grower Management Decisions (SDSU)
- Regional Screening Nurseries - Kansas
- Developing Diverse Solutions for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Wheat
- Fusarium Mycotoxins Management in Sprouted Cereal Grains
- Fusarium Head Blight Management and Risk Assessment
- Using Genetic Resistance and Fungicides for Managing Fusarium Head Blight in Louisiana
- Barley Exosome Cataloging by Proteomics and RNAseq
- Fusarium Head Blight Resistance Breeding at MSU
- Fusarium Head Blight Breeding Research at North Carolina State University
- Improving Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in Barley
- Developing Native and Induce Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance Solutions in Wheat
- Genetic Dissection and Improvement of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in Durum Wheat
- Developing Scab Resistant Wheat and Barley via Genomics
- Breed Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) resistant HWW via Doubled Haploid
- Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in the Intermountain West
- Improving Phenotyping Accuracy Using Artificially Intelligent Technologies and Innovative Method
- Scab Resistant Wheat Germplasm Adapted to GA and Southeast
- Wheat Breeding for Enhanced Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in North Dakota
- Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Minnesota
- Genetic Resistance and Fungicide for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Control in Durum
- Breeding Spring Wheat for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in South Dakota
- Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat & Barley Prediction Models
- Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Durum Varieties for Montana
- Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB)-resistant winter wheat for Texas and the Southern U.S.
- Microbiome antagonism of Fusarium Head Blight
- Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Management in Wheat in South Dakota
- Towards Development of Scab Resistant Barley Adapted for the State of South Dakota
- Breeding for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in Spring Wheat
- Fusarium Head Blight Management in Kansas
- Fusarium Head Blight Screening and Molecular Analysis of Barley Resistance
- Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Missouri
- Developing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat for the Coastal Plain
- Fusarium Head Blight Management in Kentucky
- Approaches to Improving Barley Health in Pennsylvania
- Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Wheat and Barley
- Managing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Through Lab and Field Studies
- Field Research for Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Small Grains
- Developing Malting Barley with Reduced Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON
- Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat and Barley
- High Fidelity/Temporal Detection of Field Fusarium Head Blight (FHB)
- Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Pennsylvania
- Breeding Fusariam Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Winter Wheat Varieties for Montana
- Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Spring Wheat Varieties for Montana
- Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance for Montana Barley
- Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON in New England
- Forecasting Models for Wheat Fusarium Head Blight
- Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Research Community Barley Genetic Engineering Facility
- Wheat Crop Improvement for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance by Cytogenetics
- Breeding Durum Wheat for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance
- Barley Cultivars for California with improved Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance
- Fusarium Head Blight Research in Delaware
- Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat Cultivars for the Gulf Coast Region.
- Diagnostic Services for Deoxynivalenol
- Fusarium Head Blight Investigation in Tennessee
- Breeding Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) resistant Hard Winter Wheat for North Dakota
- DON and Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in North American Winter Barleys
- Genetic Enhancement of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in Barley
- Development of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat and Barley for the NE U.S.
- Use of Traditional and Genomic Plant Breeding to Improve Fusarium Head Blight Resistance Soft Winter Wheat
- Breeding Fusarium Head Blight Resistant Spring and Winter Barley
- hCoordinated IPM for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON in SRWW - Wisconsin
- Developing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat lines for the Midsouth
- Breeding for Scab Resistance in Winter Small Grains for South Dakota
- Mycotoxin Testing Services at Virginia Tech
- Genome-enabled Selection for Host Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance
- Genetic Characterization and Field Evaluation of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance in Spring Wheat and Durum Wheat
- Regulation of Plant Infection and DON Biosynthesis in Fusarium graminearum
- Management of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and DON in Wheat and Barley
- Accelerating the Development of FHB-Resistant Soft Red Winter Wheat Varieties for Kentucky
- Genetics of Aggressiveness in Fusarium graminearum
- USWBSI Wheat Transformation/Gene Editing Facility
- Develop Fusarium Head Blight-Resistant Maryland Wheat & Barley Cultivars
- Evaluation of Integrated Management Programs and Fungicides for Fusarium Head Blight & DON in Indiana
- Scab Resistant Variety Development and Testing
- Management of the USWBSI Networking & Facilitation Office
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions in Indiana Corn
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions
- Improving Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions (WI)-Year 2
- Integrating NPMTI Resources with Crop Protection Network (CPN) for Advancing Crop Health
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions (WI)
- Administration of the National Predictive Modeling Tool Initiative (NPMTI)
- North Dakota: Establishing the infrastructure for disease prediction tools to manage root rot in pulse crops
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases and Affecting Cotton to Better Inform management decisions
- Climate Data, Modeling Support and Delivery for NPMTI
- Arkansas Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Alabama Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- South Carolina Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Florida Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Georgia Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn and Mississippi Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Developing Disease Prediction Tools in Corn and Cotton to Optimize Management Plans
- Texas Wheat and Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Establishing the Infrastructure for Disease Prediction Tools to Manage Foliar Diseases in Wheat and Root Rot in Pulse Crops
- Establishing Infrastructure to Develop Predictive Tools for Corn and Wheat Diseases
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn and Cotton to Better Inform Management Decisions in Louisiana
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Predictive Tools for Wheat Diseases in Kansas
- Continued Monitoring and Development of Wheat Rust and Spot Modeling Tool
- Develop Predictive Tools for Wheat Diseases that Support Grower Management Decisions
- Oklahoma Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Tennessee Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- NAGC: Diagnostic Hub for Assay Development and Pathogen Testing Services for the NPMTI
- NPMTI: Modernizing Data Collection and Data Warehouse Optimization
- Development of Molecular Diagnostics and Cotton Disease Predictive Tool
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Predictive Tools for Wheat Diseases in Kentucky
- Development of Predictive Tools for Oklahoma Cotton Diseases
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions
- Model Deployment for Wheat Diseases in the United States
- Administration of the National Predictive Modeling Tool Initiative (NPMTI)
- Breeding to Improve Yield and FHB Resistance in Wheat
- Current and Novel Wheat Scab Management in Illinois
- Enhancing FHB Resistance in Barley
- Increasing Genetic Gain for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance
- Regulation of Deoxynivaleno Biosynthesis
- Mapping Genes Causing FHB Variation For Targeting
- Early Generation Screening of Winter Wheat Breeding Lines for FHB Resistance in Montana
- Genomics Assisted Breeding for FHB in Hard Winter Wheat
- Breed FHB Resistant Cultivars Via Doubled Haploid and MAS
- Producing FHB-Resistant Doubled Haploids in Barley
- Wheat Crop Improvement for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistance by Cytogenomics
- Advancing Field FHB Phenotyping Capabilities
- Integrated FHB and DON Management Strategies
- Sources of FHB Resistance in Hard Winter Wheat
- Alabama Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- South Carolina Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Predictive Tools for Wheat Diseases in Kansas
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions and Louisiana Cotton Disease
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions
- Development of Molecular Diagnostics and Cotton Disease Predictive Tool
- Development of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn and Mississippi Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Montana: National Predictive Modeling Tool Initiative for Wheat and Pulse Crops FY25
- NAGC is a Diagnostic Hub for Assay Development and Pathogen Testing Services for the NPMTI
- North Dakota: Establishing the Infrastructure for Disease Prediction Tools to Manage Root Rot in Pulse Crops, FY25
- Field Research to Support Foliar Wheat Disease Prediction Tools in North Dakota
- Infrastructure for Developing Predictive Tools for Corn and Wheat Diseases in Ohio
- Development of Predictive Tools for Oklahoma Cotton Diseases
- Model Deployment for Wheat Diseases in the United States
- Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Predictive Tools for Wheat Diseases in South Dakota
- Support of Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Cotton and Wheat
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn to Better Inform Management Decisions
- Arkansas Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- FY2025 Florida Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Develop Prediction Tools for Diseases & Affecting Cotton to Better Inform Management Decisions for Georgia Cotton Producers
- NPMTI data warehouse operation and improvement
- Establishing the Infrastructure to Develop Predictive Tools for Wheat Diseases in Kentucky
- Improving Prediction Tools for Diseases and Mycotoxins Affecting Corn
- Establishing the Infrastructure for Disease Prediction Tools in Corn and Cotton
- Tennessee Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Oklahoma Cotton Disease Predictive Tool Development
- Develop Predictive Tools for Wheat Diseases that Support Grower Management Decisions
- AI-Based Detection and Mapping of Soybean Diseases
- Soybean RAC: Extension Tools to Predict Seasonal Insect Risk for Soybean Growers
- Monitoring and Predictive Modeling of Airborne Aspergillus Flavus Spore Counts in Corn
- Soybean RAC: Harnessing Collaborations to Improve Prediction of Cercospora Diseases
- Development of Risk Prediction Tools for Field Crop Diseases
- Integrated Fusarium Head Blight Management in Kansas
- Accelerating Genetic Gain for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Southern Soft Wheat
- Approaches to Reduce the Impact of FHB in Delaware
- Bolstering Winter Wheat FHB Resistance in the Carolinas
- Fusarium Head Blight Management in Kentucky
- FHB Resistant Soft Red Winter Wheat Varieties - KY
- Optimizing U.S. Manufactured Spray Drone Applications
- FHB Management and Fungicide Resistance Monitoring
- Fusarium Head Blight Resistance for Montana Spring Wheat
- Fusarium Head Blight Resistance for MT Barley
- FHB Breeding for the U.S. South
- Breeding Durum Wheat for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance
- Improving FHB Resistance in UNL Wheat and Barley
- Integrated FHB Management in ND Small Grains and Facilitation of Information
- Durum Wheat Varieties with FHB Resistance for Montana
- Elevating FHB Resistance in South Dakota Spring Wheat
- Efficiently Breeding Balanced FHB Resistant ND Cultivars
- Developing Malting Barley with Reduced FHB and DON in North Dakota
- Breeding FHB-resistant Hard Winter Wheat for North Dakota
- Deoxynivalenol (DON) and DON-3-glucoside in Wheat and Barley
- FHB Integrated Management in Durum with Fungicides
- Chromosome Engineering for FHB Resistance in Wheat
- FHB-Resistant Barley Doubled Haploid Production
- Durum FHB Resistance: Gene Discovery and Nursery Screening
- Development of Durum Wheat Breeding Lines with Enhanced Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight
- Developing FHB Resistant Hard Red Wheat Cultivars
- AI-Powered Wheat FHB and FDK Assessment Tool Development
- Improving FHB Resistance of TX SRW Wheat for the SE Region
- Resistant Wheat Germplasm Adapted to GA and U.S. Southeast
- Integrating FHB Resistance in Montana Winter Wheat
- Genomics Approaches to Developing Scab Resistant Barley and Wheat
- Expanding FHB Outreach with Crop Protection Network
- Breeding Wheat for Resistance to FHB at Michigan State University
- Genetic Resistance and Fungicides to Manage Scab
- Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight in New York
- Risk-based Integrated Management of Fusarium Head Blight
- Genetics and Management of FHB in Small Grains
- Hard Winter Wheat Fusarium Head Blight Evaluation
- Genomic Selection for Stable FHB Resistance in Winter Wheat and Barley
- Mycotoxin Diagnostic Services at Virginia Tech
- Winter Small Grains Breeding for FHB Resistance for South Dakota
- Plant Carboxylesterases in DON Accumulation
- Determination of Fungicide Efficacy for Management of Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat
- IPM and Forecasting for FHB and DON in Wheat for Wisconsin
- Breeding Spring and Winter Barley with Lower DON
- Use of Modern Breeding to Create FHB Resistant Cultivars
- Breeding FHB Resistant Winter Wheat for the NE U.S.
- Optimizing U.S. Manufactured Spray Drone Applications
- Genetic Characterization of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Barley
- A Winter NABSEN
- Developing FHB Resistant Small Grain Cultivars for Maryland
- Fusarium Graminearum Species Complex Diversity
- Wheat Genetic Transformation and Editing Facility
- Inheritance and Introgression in Fusarium graminearum
- Management of FHB and DON in Wheat in Nebraska
- Genomics Enabled Breeding of FHB Resistance Traits
- Breeding FHB Resistant Cultivars via Doubled Haploid and Marker-assisted Selection
- Deploying FHB Resistance in California Bread Wheat
- USWBSI Networking and Facilitation Office Organizational Management
National Programs
- Potato Research
- Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
- Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative
- Small Fruit and Nursery Research
- National Plant Diseases Recovery System
- Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
- Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat and Barley
- National Predictive Modeling Tool Initiative
- Identifying New Genetic Sources and Evaluating United States Wheat Germplasm for Resistance to Stem Rust in Eastern Africa