Find ARS Research Projects Search by Keyword International Subject of Investigation Agave Agricultural supplies, general/other Air Alfalfa Almond Animal research, general Annual grasses, other Apple Apricot Aquatic plants 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 Butter Canola Carrot Cassava (or manioc) Castor 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.) Crambe Cranberry Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species Cross-commodity research--multiple crops Cucumber Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd) Cultured aquatic animals, general/other Cuphea 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 Farm structures and related facilities Feed and feed additives Fertilizers Fiber crops, general/other Filbert Finfish Fish habitats Flavoring and beverage plants, other Flax 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, . 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Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti) Other animals, general Other beef cattle products Other cultured finfish Other cultured shellfish Other dairy cattle products Other Pollinators Other poultry products Other products of the forest Other swine products Oysters Papaya 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 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 Sensory evaluation/analysis methods (human senses) 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 The family and its members The farm as an enterprise Tilapia Tomato Trees, forests, and forest products, general Trefoil Tropical forests Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other Trout 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 Wild birds Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other Wildlife habitats Wine grapes Winter annual grasses (includes annual ryegrass) Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover) Wood and wood products Wool fiber Sheep, live animal A SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM (SNP) MARKER SET FOR DNA-BASED TRACEBACK IN NORTH AMERICAN BEEF AND DAIRY CATTLE AN INVESTIGATION OF THE GENOME STRUCTURE OF THE TICK BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DATABASE TO SUPPORT A TICK GENOME PROJECT ANAEROBIC RUMINAL MICROBES THAT DEGRADE ENDOPHYTE ALKALOIDS (BOTH ERGOVALINE AND LOLITREM B) ANIMAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM APPALACHIAN HERBAGE NUTRITIVE FRACTIONATION, DIGESTIVE KINETICS & FERMENTATION END-PRODUCT PROFILING FOR GRAZING SYSTEM MODELING & DEVELOPMT APPALACHIAN LAND USE AND LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS APPLICATION OF BIOINFORMATICS TO LIVESTOCK GENOMES ASSAY PLATFORMS FOR THE RAPID DETECTION OF VIRAL PATHOGENS BY MONITORING ANTIGEN ANTIBODY BINDING ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS (FMDV) PROTEINS IN VIRAL PATHOGENESIS ASTRAGALUS AND OXYTROPIS POISONING IN LIVESTOCK BOVINE COPY NUMBER POLYMORPHISM AND ITS IMPLICATION IN EARLY EMBRYONIC LOSS BOVINE MICRORNA TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSES: DISCOVERY, TISSUE-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION PROFILE, AND TARGET GENE PREDICTION BSE PATHOGENESIS STUDY CHARACTERIZATION OF LOCAL ISOLATES OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUSES AND DEVELOPMENT OF VECTOR BASED VACCINES CHARACTERIZATION OF SHEEP BREEDS AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOSITE LINES SUITABLE FOR RANGE ENVIRONMENTS CHARACTERIZATION OF STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS IN LIVESTOCK GENOMES CHARACTERIZING AND MANAGING ANIMAL STRESS/WELL-BEING IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION CONTINUATION OF IMPROVED FORAGE LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION CONTROL OF GAMMAHERPESVIRUS-ASSOCIATED MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER IN RUMINANTS COUNTERMEASURES TO CONTROL AND ERADICATE RIFT VALLEY FEVER (RFV) DESIGNING NOVEL CONTROL STRATEGIES BY IDENTIFYING HORN FLY VULNERABILITIES IN THE FLY'S LIFE CYCLE AND MAXIMIZING INSECTICIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY DETECTION OF ARTHROPOD-BORNE DISEASES AND PROTECTION OF LIVESTOCK DETECTION OF EMERGING LIVESTOCK PATHOGENS DETECTION OF TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY AGENTS IN LIVESTOCK, WILDLIFE, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT DETERMINANTS OF ANAPLASMA MARGINALE TRANSMISSION AT THE VECTOR/PATHOGEN INTERFACE DETERMINATION OF "OUT-OF-SEASON" BREEDING TENDENCY FOR POLYPAY X BLACKFACE YEARLING EWES DEVELOPING PREDICTIVE TOOLS FOR PREVENTION OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENOTYPING PLATFORM TO ENHANCE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA MARKERS FOR FEED EFFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT OF ARBOVIRUS DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS USING MASS SPECTROMETRY DEVELOPMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC FOR RIFT VALLEY FEVER COMPATIBLE WITH A DIVA VACCINE CONTROL APPROACH DEVELOPMENT OF FMDV BIOTHERAPEUTICS TARGETING NATURAL KILLER (NK) CELLS OF CATTLE AND SWINE DEVELOPMENT OF GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODE CONTROL IN ORGANIC SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT OF METHODOLOGY FOR APPLICATION TO FOREIGN ANIMAL DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS, SURVEILLANCE, DETECTION, CONTROL AND ERADICATION DEVELOPMENT OF SENSITIVE IN VITRO TECHNIQUES FOR PRION DETECTION DEVELOPMENT OF SERS ASSAYS FOR WEST NILE VIRUS DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODE CONTROL IN ORGANIC SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION IN ALABAMA DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODE CONTROL IN ORGANIC SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION IN ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODE CONTROL IN ORGANIC SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION IN GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODE CONTROL IN ORGANIC SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION IN LOUISIANA DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODE CONTROL IN ORGANIC SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION IN TEXAS DISSEMINATION OF ABNORMAL PRION PROTEIN IN THE NEURAL AND EXTRANEURAL TISSUES OF WILD ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK EFFECTS OF POLYPHENOLIC SUBSTANCES ON SOIL ORGANIC MATTER ENDEMIC AND OUTBREAK STRAIN GUIDANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ANAPLASMA MARGINALE VACCINE EVALUATION OF CARCASS COMPOSITION AND MEAT QUALITY IN TERMINAL SIRED LAMBS EVALUATION OF NEW MOLECULAR TARGETS TO CONTROL ARBOVIRUS TRANSMISSION EVALUATION OF OPERATOR SAFE DIAGNOSTIC REAGENTS FOR RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS EVALUATION OF REPELLENTS AND CONTROL COMPOUNDS IN MOSQUITOES, SAND FLIES, AND TICKS INFECTED WITH MILITARILY IMPORTANT HUMAN PATHOGENS EVALUATION OF RIFT VALLEY FEVER (RVF) VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC REAGENTS EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND USE OF GENETIC RESOURCES TO IMPROVE LIFE-CYCLE EFFICIENCY OF BEEF CATTLE AND SHEEP EXPANSION OF THE KENYAN RIFT VALLEY FEVER (RVF) VETERINARY SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM TO INCLUDE WILDLIFE SPECIES FEEDING AND GRAZING STRATEGIES TO CONTROL GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITES IN MEAT GOATS FEMALE CONDITIONAL-LETHAL STRAINS OF DIPTERA: MODELING IN THE HORN FLY TO TARGET THE SCREWWORM FERTILITY OF CRYOPRESERVED SWINE GERMPLASM FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS (FMDV) HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS FORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR SMALE-SCALE RUMINANT PRODUCTION IN THE APPALACHIAN REGION GENETIC AND BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY GENETIC STUDIES OF RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS VECTORS IN KENYA GENOMIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE MILK PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY AND CONTROL MASTITIS GENOMIC AND IMMUNOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF JOHNE'S DISEASE HIGH CONSEQUENCE PATHOGEN DETECTION HOST IMMUNOGENETICS PREDICT CLINICAL DISEASES IN OVINE PROGRESSIVE PNEUMONIA VIRUS INFECTED SHEEP IMPACT OF DIET AND GUT MICROBIAL ECOLOGY ON FOODBORNE BACTERIAL PATHOGENS AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN FARM ANIMALS IMPROVING REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF SHEEP INTEGRATED BIOSYSTEMATICS AND TAXONOMY FOR PARASITES AMONG UNGULATES AND OTHER VERTEBRATES INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT, ECOLOGY, AND TOXICOLOGY STUDIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS FOR INCREASING PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY OF SHEEP INVESTIGATION OF A BLUETONGUE OUTBREAK IN SHEEP AND WILDLIFE AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPACT INVESTIGATION OF A BLUETONGUE OUTBREAK IN SHEEP AND WILDLIFE AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPACT INVESTIGATION OF PARASITE INFECTIONS THAT IMPACT LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION JOHNE'S DISEASE INTEGRATED PROGRAM IN RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION LIVESTOCK GRAZING IN RANGELAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LIVESTOCK LOSSES FROM ABORTIFACIENT AND TERATOGENIC PLANTS MANAGEMENT OF TEMPERATE PASTURES AND SILVOPASTURES FOR SMALL FARM LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION MEDICINAL BOTANICAL PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF ARBOVIRUSES MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS MOLECULAR METHOD FOR PRION STRAIN ANALYSIS MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS IN CATTLE NATIONAL ANIMAL GERMPLASM PROGRAM (NAGP) NATIVE PLANT RESOURCES FOR SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION IN APPALACHIA NEW MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING RANGELAND MANAGEMENT NON-TRADITIONAL PLANT RESOURCES FOR GRAZING RUMINANTS IN APPALACHIA NOVEL STRATEGIES FOR THE DETECTION OF INFECTIOUS PRION PROTEINS OPTIMIZING THE BIOLOGY OF THE ANIMAL-PLANT INTERFACE FOR IMPROVED SUSTAINABILITY OF FORAGE-BASED ANIMAL ENTERPRISES PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGICAL CONTROL OF SHEEP-ASSOCIATED MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER IN AMERICAN BISON PLANT MATERIALS FOR CONTROL OF GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITES IN SMALL RUMINANTS POISONING OF LIVESTOCK BY VARIOUS LARKSPUR SPECIES (DELPHINIUM) PRESERVATION OF CAPRINE GERMPLASM PRESERVATION OF SWINE GERMPLASM PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI IN LIVESTOCK PRION INFECTION OF TONGUE PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE RANGELAND PRODUCTION PRODUCTION OF TRANSGENIC MICE PROMOTE THE EFFICIENT AND SAFE DIAGNOSIS AND SURVEILLANCE OF EMERGING ARTHROPOD-BORNE INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN WYOMING RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR FOREIGN ANIMAL DISEASES RAPID MOLECULAR BASED TESTS FOR DIFFERENTIATION OF DEER ADENOVIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FROM HIGH COMSEQUENCE VIRUSES REMOTELY SENSED SATELLITE CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL DATA TO DETECT ELEVATED POPULATIONS OF MOSQUITO VECTORS OF EMERGING ARBOVIRUSES IN THE US RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF METHODOLOGY FOR TESTING CHEMICAL INACTIVATION OF HIGH CONSEQUENCE VIRAL DISEASE AGENTS RESEARCH INVOLVED IN THE CONTROL OF TICKS THAT TRANSMIT LYME DISEASE AND LOUPING ILL RESEARCH ON ARTHROPOD-BORNE DISEASES OF LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH ON ARTHROPOD-BORNE DISEASES OF LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH ON ARTHROPOD-BORNE DISEASES OF LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE AND THEIR VECTORS RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS RSV EFFECTS ON EPITHELIA DENDRITIC CELL CROSS TALK SPLANCHNIC AND HIND LIMB METABOLISM OF SELENIUM AND METHIONINE IN INFECTION STRESSED EWES STRAIN TYPING OF CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE (CWD) AND SCRAPIE BY INTRACEREBRAL INOCULATION INTO TRANSGENIC AND INBRED MOUSE LINES STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE CARCASS YIELD AND MEAT QUALITY OF RED MEAT ANIMALS STUDIES TO FURTHER UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIOLOGICAL STRAIN TYPING OF TSE ISOLATES STUDY OF ATYPICAL BSE SUPPORT OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ANIMAL HEALTH CARE DIVISION (AHCD) SUSTAINABLE CONTROL OF GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODES IN SMALL RUMINANTS SUSTAINABLE DISTURBANCE LEVELS FOR MILITARY TRAINING IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES SUSTAINABLE PEST MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR BLOOD-FEEDING FLIES AFFECTING LIVESTOCK THE EFFECT OF HOLDING TIME ON RAM SEMEN FERTILITY THE INFLUENCE OF MATERNAL ENVIRONMENT ON FETAL DEVELOPMENT, AND PROGENY BIRTH WEIGHT, GROWTH AND HEALTH THE ROLE OF ANAEROBIC RUMINAL MICROBES IN THE DEGRADATION OF ERGOPEPTIDE ALKALOIDS THE ROLE OF INSECT VECTOR TRANSMISSION IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS THE ROLE OF THE PLACENTA IN TRANSMISSION OF EXPERIMENTAL BSE FROM SHEEP TO SHEEP THE TOXICITY OF PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID-CONTAINING PLANTS AND OTHER HEPATOTOXIC AND NEUROTOXIC PLANTS TRANSGENIC ANALYSIS OF CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE STRAINS TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES: THE ROLE OF GENETICS, STRAIN VARIATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION IN DISEASE CONTROL TRANSMISSION, DIFFERENTIATION, AND PATHOBIOLOGY OF TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES USING GENOMICS TO DEFINE AND CONTROL PARASITIC INFECTIONS IN CATTLE VECTOR COMPETENCE AND PROTECTION OF U.S. LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE FROM ARTHROPOD-BORNE DISEASES VECTOR COMPETENCE OF NORTH AMERICAN MOSQUITOES FOR RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS VESICULAR STOMATITIS OUTBREAK FIELD INVESTIGATIONS AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ENDEMIC AREAS VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS (VSV) HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS         Last Modified: 10/21/2008