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Natural Resources and Environment Soil, plant, water, nutrient relationships Water conservation Forest and land sustainability (urban forestry) Forest and land sustainability (Agroforestry) Natural resource and environmental management Soil and Water Quality	Plant and Plant Systems Genetics/genomics and basic plant science Plant protection including IPM Plant product quality and utility Organic farming Production of nutriceuticals/pharmaceuticals	Animals and their Systems (to include fisheries and aquaculture) Reproductive performance Nutrient utilization Genetic improvement Animal genome Environmental stress in amimals Animal management systems Improved animal products Animal diseases/Immunology External/Internal parasites of pests and animals Hazards affecting animals	Agriculture Engineering Water disposal, recycling and resuse
Food: Developemnt, Processing, Quality and Delivery New and improved food processing techniques New and improved food products Quality maintenance in storing and marketing food products Home and commercial food service	Economics, Markets, and Policy Economics of Ag. Production and Farm Management Business management, finance and taxation Market economics Marketing and distribution practices Natural resource and environmental economics International trade and development Consumer  economics Community resource planning and development Domestic policy analysis Foreign policy and programs	Functional Foods, Nutrition, and Human Health and Well-Being Bioactive food components Bioavailability and metabolism of bioactive food components and nutrients Requirements and function of nutrients and other food components Nutrition education and behavior Nutrition and hunger in the population Obesity prevention Nutrition-related diseases	Biofuels and Bioproducts New/improved technologies that produce biofuels from ag. materials Investigating the potentials of feedstocks from raw materials for energy production Production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products from biomass sources Gasification research
Climate Change Biological consequencies of climate changes Understanding the sequences and duration of weather events and the response of relevant biota	Food Safety and Food Science Ensure food products free of harmful components Protect food from contamination by pathogenic microorganisms, parasites and naturally occurring toxins Evaluate preventive techiques for sustainability, effectiveness, reliability, and cost Develop/evaluate detection/monitoring tools or procedures related to foodborne hazard detection Food Engineering Food Processing Product Development Maintenance of nutritional qualities of food products during storage and marketing	Families, Youth and Communities Individual and family resource management Human development and family well-being Sociological and technological change affecting individuals, families, and communities Human environmental issues concerning apparel, textiles, and residential/farm commercial structures Youth development	Keywords Canola Sweet sorghum Perennial grasses Crop residues to bioethanol Woody biomass Algal oil Soybean oil Switch grass Corn stover aquaponic systems sun hemp Miscanthus Trichoderma reesei Saccharomyces cerevisiae Lespedeza cuneata E. coli O157:H7 Salmonella spp Listeria monocytogenes Vibrio