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ARS Home Research Annual Report on Science Accomplishments FY 2021





- Advancing Human Nutrition Research
- Advancing Sustainable Aquaculture Production
- Advancing Sustainable Livestock Production
- Combating AMR
- Combating Citrus Greening
- Controlling Insect Pests
- Developing New Crop Varieties
- Expanding Public Access to Agricultural Information
- Improving Pasture and Rangeland Management
- Improving Rural Economies
- Monitoring and Mitigating Plant Disease
- Optimizing Agricultural Management to Mitigate Climate
- Optimizing Water Use Management
- Protecting Animal Health Disease Detection
- Protecting Human and Animal Health
- Protecting Pollinator Health
- Reducing Labor and Advancing Precision Agriculture
- Safeguarding the Food Supply

**Expanding Public Access to Agricultural Information** DOWNLOAD TWO-PAGER PDF  **ARS facilitates the creation of agricultural knowledge through the effective stewardship of agricultural data, literature, and other information resources available at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), the world’s largest collection of agricultural information.**As the library of the USDA,NAL provides public access to USDA-funded scholarly literature and data and digitized access to specialcollections. The following milestones in 2021 demonstrate how NAL supports fact-based, data-drivendecision-making. **Increasing USDA full-text publications and peer reviewed citations in PubAg****.** PubAg is NAL’s searchsystem for USDA-funded scholarly agricultural literatureand is the source for researchers, scientists, and thepublic to find scientific, peer-reviewed, agriculture-related citations and publications. In FY 2021, PubAgreached 3,487,840 million citations for peer-reviewed,agriculture-related scientific articles, an increase ofmore than 437,063 citations from FY 2020. NAL alsoincreased the full-text corpus publicly accessiblethrough PubAg by nearly 10,000 full-text articles, for atotal of 311,877 full-text articles. **i5K Workspace****.** The i5K Workspace is a place forarthropod genome communities to curate, visualize,and share data about agricultural pests and otherarthropods. In FY 2021 the total number of workspaceusers increased to 15,044, with 57,962 total annualpage views. The i5k Workspace improved a functional annotation pipeline for arthropod genomes, addedseven new genomes to its platform, and released five functional genome annotations to the NationalCenter for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), with more slated for FY 2022. ARS i5k Workspace personnelalso contributed to the Ag100Pest project in FY 2021 via upgrades that will support an initial assembly of25 genomes. **LCA Commons.**Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology for assessing environmental impactsassociated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service. The LCACommons is an open repository and publication workflow for government funded and produced LCAresearch products. Since 2018, the Federal LCA Commons at NAL has grown to include more than 12agencies across government and includes participation from the Department of Commerce, Departmentof Defense, Department of Transportation, and the Council on Environmental Quality. The LCA Commonsmaintains access to more than 20 major LCA data collections, some of which have been included in toolsthat support policy making across the federal government. NAL leads the Federal LCA Community ofPractice, an inter-agency group valued for its unbiased expertise and high-quality data that is supportingUSDA priorities related to Climate Smart Agriculture. **Hosting and disseminating USDA nutrition data****.** FoodData Central is an integrated data system thatprovides expanded nutrient profile data and links to related agricultural and experimental research. NALhosts the FoodData Central website, providing online access to data for more than 383,713 differentfoods with more than 18.5 million food component entries. Combined, the FoodData Central platform andthe legacy Food Composition Database generated nearly 15 million pageviews during 2.1 million usersessions in FY 2021. Application developers from private industry and academia made nearly 36 million application programming interface (API) calls to FoodData Central, making the FoodData Central API among the most popular in government. NAL made major improvements in the API application code thatincreased the efficiency of the query system. A satellite navigation system is mounted on the far right of this private spray plane's control panel. June 30, 2010. USDA Photo. https://flic.kr/p/8zybzv


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