ARS Researchers are breeding peanuts that are resistant to diseases that greatly impact peanut quality and yield.

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Citrus greening, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB, is a vector borne disease that has devastated the citrus industry here in Florida. There is no cure, but ARS researchers and their colleagues are developing an arsenal of solutions that will sweeten the citrus industry here in the sunshine state.

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Imagine a library… but instead of books, it holds seeds, cuttings, and living plants from every corner of the world. Today, we’re stepping into a living library to tell the history and future of new food varieties – how they have been selected, improved, and delivered from the farm to your shopping cart.

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The sport of baseball is woven into America’s culture like the uniforms worn by the players. Baseball has been around for nearly 150 years, and in that time we’ve seen plenty of home run sluggers, from Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron to Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey, Jr., to todays mashers like Aaron Judge and Mike Trout.
 
Did you know that most professional baseball bats are made from either maple or ash?  ARS researchers help keep America’s pastime swinging for the fences by protecting Ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer.

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ARS scientists created a thornless blackberry plant along with many new varieties of blackberries for the agricultural industry and a trellis system designed to protect and help pickers harvest blackberries.  ARS scientists are also working with the individually quick frozen industry to pack the great taste of raspberries into your cool treats.

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Corn is grown all over our planet and is an important crop in all parts of our lives. ARS Research Entomologist Xinzhi Ni, at ARS’s Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit in Tifton, GA, is looking at how corn plants get stressed, and how those stressors invite diseases and pathogens to proliferate inside the crop. Ni is hopeful the work will help future entomologists and breeders find solutions to these perennial problems.

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Learn how a USDA breeding program was responsible for the development of the blueberry growing industry in the southeastern United States and how ARS scientists have developed and are continuing to work with farmers to create new cultivars of blueberries that we all get to enjoy.

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Is hemp the plant of the future?  See if this crop, which has been around for thousands of years, will find its place in the US agricultural marketplace.

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ARS scientists are turning nano fibers from cotton plants into mask filters, wound dressings, and other medical applications.

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Check out some amazing wonderplants at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, DC.

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