ARS Research Labs Studying Corn

• Cropping Systems Research Laboratory: Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Research
• Cropping Systems Research Laboratory: Wind Erosion and Water Conservation Research
• Plant Genetics Research
• Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center: Toxicology & Mycotoxin Research
• Crop Genetics and Breeding Research
• Crop Science Research Laboratory
• Crop Science Research Laboratory: Corn Host Plant Resistance Research
• Genomics and Bioinformatics Research
• Crop Production Systems Research
• Plant Science Research
• Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory

74 Research Projects Studying Corn

• Integrated crop-livestock systems for the western corn belt (Agroecosystem Management Research)
• Nrate (nitrogen research for agriculture transformation and enhancement) in corn and perennial/forage production systems (Agroecosystem Management Research)
• Impact of agricultural intensification on microbial processes underpinning soil health in the western corn belt (Agroecosystem Management Research)
• Ecology and integrated management of ambrosia beetles in eastern us orchard and ornamental tree crops-cornell (Application Technology Research)
• Experimentation, model development and on-farm application crop and soil process models for corn, potato...experiment stations (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory)
• Optimizing corn-based starch bioplastic formulations to enhance the efficacy of beneficial pathogens to control agricultural pests (Biological Control of Pests Research)
• Long-term beef manure influences soil quality, carbon dynamics, and corn productivity (Center for Agricultural Resources Research: Water Management and Systems Research)
• Sweet cap: integrated technologies to improve sweet corn production and marketability (Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology: Chemistry Research)
• Corn mycotoxin mitigation initiative (Cereal Disease Research)
• Corn mycotoxin mitigation initiative (Cereal Disease Research)
• Development of genomic and functional resources for u.s. corn rust pathogens and corn resistance germplasm (Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research)
• Detection and characterization of genetic resistance to corn and soybean viruses (Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research)
• Understanding the epidemiology of corn stunt disease in texas (Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research)
• Understanding the epidemiology of corn stunt disease in oklahoma (Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research)
• Understanding the epidemiology of corn stunt disease in kansas (Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research)
• Identification of the wsm3 resistance gene in corn (Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research)
• Using non-gmo double stranded rna (dsrna) strategies to prevent aspergillus flavus infection and aflatoxin contamination in corn and peanut (Crop Genetics and Breeding Research)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Improving prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (wi)-year 2 (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn and mississippi cotton disease predictive tool development (Crop Production and Protection)
• Establishing the infrastructure to develop prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions and louisiana cotton disease (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn and mississippi cotton disease predictive tool development (Crop Production and Protection)
• Establishing the infrastructure to develop prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Improving prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn (Crop Production and Protection)
• Establishing the infrastructure for disease prediction tools in corn and cotton (Crop Production and Protection)
• Infrastructure for developing predictive tools for corn and wheat diseases in ohio (Crop Production and Protection)
• Development of prediction tools for diseases and mycotoxins affecting corn to better inform management decisions (Crop Production and Protection)
• Monitoring and predictive modeling of airborne aspergillus flavus spore counts in corn (Crop Production and Protection)
• Molecular mechanisms underlying gossypol and chlorantraniliprole detoxification in cotton and corn pests (Crop Science Research Laboratory: Corn Host Plant Resistance Research)
• Exploring novel genetic sources of resistance to the corn stunt complex through double haploid technology and linked molecular markers (Crop Science Research Laboratory: Corn Host Plant Resistance Research)
• Horizon ii: a climate-smart future for corn, soybean, livestock, and renewable natural gas production (Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research)
• Risk assessment of emerging diseases caused by pantoea spp. on rice, peanut, and corn in the usa in collaboration with colorado state university (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center)
• Risk assessment of emerging diseases caused by pantoea spp. on rice, peanut, and corn in the usa in collaboration with oklahoma state university (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center)
• Risk assessment of emerging diseases caused by pantoea spp. on rice, peanut, & corn in the usa in collaboration with texas a&m university-beaumont (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center)
• Risk assessment of emerging diseases caused by pantoea spp. on rice, peanut, & corn in the usa in collaboration with texas a&m-amarillo (Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center)
• Decarbonization of corn bioethanol via renewable fuel gas production from byproducts (Eastern Regional Research Center: Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research)
• Genome diagnostics for magnaporthiopsis maydis: enhancing detection of corn late wilt (Foreign Disease Weed Science Research)
• Building national resources to protect u.s. corn from claviceps gigantea and ergot disease (Foreign Disease Weed Science Research)
• Precision orientation planting corn seed to optimize root and leaf emergence (Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory)
• Mitigate vomitoxin in u.s. corn (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research)
• Innovative food and feed safety research to eliminate mycotoxin contamination in corn and other crops (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research)
• Rapid prediction and measurement of aflatoxin in whole kernel and ground corn using a portable imager (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research)
• Corn-derived ethyl lactate for sustainable production of biobased acrylic acid from high water content feeds over fau zeolite-based catalysts (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Renewable Product Technology Research)
• Identifying drivers of corn root microbiome associations to increase iowa corn production efficiencies (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
• Revealing corn root microbiome associations to increase iowa corn producer sustainability (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
• Assessing the effects of conservation practices on crop yield, water quality, and greenhouse gas emissions in the u.s. corn belt (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
• Interseeding cover crops into corn to extend the grazing season and improve soil health (Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research)
• Reducing maize grain nitrogen in support of cerca, the circular economy that re-imagines corn agriculture (Plant Genetics Research)
• Reducing maize grain nitrogen and improving cold tolerance in support of cerca, the circular economy that reimagines corn agriculture (Plant Genetics Research)
• Characterizing microbial legacies of alfalfa to promote subsequent corn health (Plant Science Research)
• Evaluation of methane reduction potential and forage quality on conventional and low-lignin variants of alfalfa and corn silage (Plant Science Research)
• Early identification of corn disease and mining historical corns (Plant Science Research)
• On-farm interventions to reduce preharvest aflatoxin contamination in corn (Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research)
• Benefits to human health, genomics, and metabolism of high antioxidant corn (hi-a corn) (Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research)
• Genome assembly, annotation, and genetic marker development of high antioxidant corn (hi-a corn) (Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research)
• On-farm preharvest mitigation and control of aflatoxin contamination of corn (Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research)
• Mitigation and control of aflatoxin contamination of corn (Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research)
• Cornell university & usda/ars-new york facilities: (holley center-ithaca, ny; grape genetics & plant genetic research units-geneva, ny) (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research)
• Cerca - circular economy that reimagines corn agriculture (cerca: on-farm nitrogen recycling) (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research)
• Evaluation of corn ddgs in practical feeds of tilapia (Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research)
• Quantifying the impacts of soil moisture status on performance of corn grown in a kura clover living mulch (Soil and Water Management Research)
• Development of aflatoxin resistant corn lines using omic technologies (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Aflatoxin control through identification of intrinsic and extrinsic factors governing the aspergillus flavus-corn interaction (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Evaluate the role of volatile organic compounds (vocs) in plant-fungal interactions, especially corn-aspergillus interaction (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Corn-environment interactions and their impact and aflatoxin contamination in different geographical corn-growing regions of texas (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Integrating classical and advanced sensing techniques for diagnosing aflatoxins in corn (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Transgenic expression of antimicrobial peptides impacts on microbial communities and aflatoxin contamination in corn (Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Machinery traffic impacts on the alfalfa-corn intercropping system (U.s. Dairy Forage Research Center: Dairy Forage Research)
• Evaluating alfalfa bred for intercropping in a corn alfalfa intercropping system (U.s. Dairy Forage Research Center: Dairy Forage Research)