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Historical gains in soybean (Glycine max Merr.) seed yield are driven by linear increases in light interception, energy conversion, and partitioning efficiencies by Koester, Robert P, Skoneczka, Jeffrey A, Cary, Troy R, Diers, Brian W, Ainsworth, Elizabeth A

“…Linear increases in light interception, energy conversion, and partitioning efficiencies have driven past yield gains in soybean. In modern cultivars, canopy…”
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Cosmological Constraints from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey maxBCG Cluster Catalog by Rozo, Eduardo, Wechsler, Risa H, Rykoff, Eli S, Annis, James T, Becker, Matthew R, Evrard, August E, Frieman, Joshua A, Hansen, Sarah M, Hao, Jiangang, Johnston, David E, Koester, Benjamin P, McKay, Timothy A, Sheldon, Erin S, Weinberg, David H

“…We use the abundance and weak-lensing mass measurements of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey maxBCG cluster catalog to simultaneously constrain cosmology and the…”
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Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and the Mass-to-number Ratio of Galaxy Clusters by Tinker, Jeremy L, Sheldon, Erin S, Wechsler, Risa H, Becker, Matthew R, Rozo, Eduardo, Zu, Ying, Weinberg, David H, Zehavi, Idit, Blanton, Michael R, Busha, Michael T, Koester, Benjamin P

“…We place constraints on the average density ([Omega]m) and clustering amplitude of matter using a combination of two measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky…”
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Investigation on the origin of hot electrons in laser plasma interaction at shock ignition intensities by Cristoforetti, G., Baffigi, F., Batani, D., Dudzak, R., Fedosejevs, R., Filippov, E. D., Gajdos, P., Juha, L., Khan, M., Koester, P., Krus, M., Mancelli, D., Martynenko, A. S., Nicolai, Ph, Pikuz, S. A., Renner, O., Tentori, A., Volpe, L., Woolsey, N., Zeraouli, G., Gizzi, L. A.

“…Shock Ignition is a two-step scheme to reach Inertial Confinement Fusion, where the precompressed fuel capsule is ignited by a strong shock driven by a laser…”
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ROBUST OPTICAL RICHNESS ESTIMATION WITH REDUCED SCATTER by RYKOFF, E. S, KOESTER, B. P, ROZO, E, ANNIS, J, EVRARD, A. E, HANSEN, S. M, HAO, J, JOHNSTON, D. E, MCKAY, T. A, WECHSLER, R. H

“…Reducing the scatter between cluster mass and optical richness is a key goal for cluster cosmology from photometric catalogs. We consider various modifications…”
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A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by Koester, B. P, McKay, T. A, Annis, J, Wechsler, R. H, Evrard, A, Bleem, L, Becker, M, Johnston, D, Sheldon, E, Nichol, R, Miller, C, Scranton, R, Bahcall, N, Barentine, J, Brewington, H, Brinkmann, J, Harvanek, M, Kleinman, S, Krzesinski, J, Long, D, Nitta, A, Schneider, D. P, Sneddin, S, Voges, W, York, D

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Patterns of Gendered Performance Differences in Large Introductory Courses at Five Research Universities by Matz, Rebecca L., Koester, Benjamin P., Fiorini, Stefano, Grom, Galina, Shepard, Linda, Stangor, Charles G., Weiner, Brad, McKay, Timothy A.

“…Significant gendered performance differences are signals of systemic inequity in higher education. Understanding of these inequities has been hampered by the…”
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Leaf and canopy scale drivers of genotypic variation in soybean response to elevated carbon dioxide concentration by Sanz‐Sáez, Álvaro, Koester, Robert P., Rosenthal, David M., Montes, Christopher M., Ort, Donald R., Ainsworth, Elizabeth A.

“…The atmospheric [CO2] in which crops grow today is greater than at any point in their domestication history and represents an opportunity for positive effects…”
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Transgenic insertion of the cyanobacterial membrane protein ictB increases grain yield in Zea mays through increased photosynthesis and carbohydrate production by Koester, Robert P, Pignon, Charles P, Kesler, Dylan C, Willison, Rebecca S, Kang, Miyoung, Shen, Yu, Priest, Henry D, Begemann, Matthew B, Cook, Kevin A, Bannon, Gary A, Oufattole, Mohammed

“…The C4 crop maize (Zea mays) is the most widely grown cereal crop worldwide and is an essential feedstock for food and bioenergy. Improving maize yield is…”
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Effects of chronic elevated ozone concentration on antioxidant capacity, photosynthesis and seed yield of 10 soybean cultivars by BETZELBERGER, AMY M, GILLESPIE, KELLY M, MCGRATH, JUSTIN M, KOESTER, ROBERT P, NELSON, RANDALL L, AINSWORTH, ELIZABETH A

“…Crops losses to tropospheric ozone (O₃) in the United States are estimated to cost $1-3 billion annually. This challenge is expected to increase as O₃…”
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Preliminary results from the LMJ-PETAL experiment on hot electrons characterization in the context of shock ignition by Baton, S.D., Colaïtis, A., Rousseaux, C., Boutoux, G., Brygoo, S., Jacquet, L., Koenig, M., Batani, D., Casner, A., Bel, E. Le, Raffestin, D., Tentori, A., Tikhonchuk, V., Trela, J., Reverdin, C., Le-Deroff, L., Theobald, W., Cristoforetti, G., Gizzi, L.A., Koester, P., Labate, L., Shigemori, K.

“…In the Shock Ignition scheme, the spike pulse intensity is well above the threshold of parametric instabilities, which produce a considerable amount of hot…”
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Experimental observation of parametric instabilities at laser intensities relevant for shock ignition by Cristoforetti, G., Colaïtis, A., Antonelli, L., Atzeni, S., Baffigi, F., Batani, D., Barbato, F., Boutoux, G., Dudzak, R., Koester, P., Krousky, E., Labate, L., Nicolaï, Ph, Renner, O., Skoric, M., Tikhonchuk, V., Gizzi, L. A.

“…We report measurements of parametric instabilities and hot electron generation in a laser intensity regime up to 6 × 1015 W/cm2, typical of the shock ignition…”
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From climate change to molecular response: redox proteomics of ozone-induced responses in soybean by Galant, Ashley, Koester, Robert P., Ainsworth, Elizabeth A., Hicks, Leslie M., Jez, Joseph M.

“…Ozone (O3) causes significant agricultural losses, with soybean (Glycine max) being highly sensitive to this oxidant. Here we assess the effect of elevated…”
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Characterization and Regulation of Aquaporin Genes of Sorghum [ Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] in Response to Waterlogging Stress by Kadam, Suhas, Abril, Alejandra, Dhanapal, Arun P, Koester, Robert P, Vermerris, Wilfred, Jose, Shibu, Fritschi, Felix B

“…Waterlogging is a significant environmental constraint to crop production, and a better understanding of plant responses is critical for the improvement of…”
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Improvement of the Richness Estimates of maxBCG Clusters by Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli S, Koester, Benjamin P, McKay, Timothy, Hao, Jiangang, Evrard, August, Wechsler, Risa H, Hansen, Sarah, Sheldon, Erin, Johnston, David, Becker, Matthew, Annis, James, Bleem, Lindsey, Scranton, Ryan

“…Minimizing the scatter between cluster mass and accessible observables is an important goal for cluster cosmology. In this work, we introduce a new matched…”
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SDSS J2222+2745: A GRAVITATIONALLY LENSED SEXTUPLE QUASAR WITH A MAXIMUM IMAGE SEPARATION OF 15".1 DISCOVERED IN THE SLOAN GIANT ARCS SURVEY by Dahle, H, Gladders, M D, Sharon, K, Bayliss, M B, Wuyts, E, Abramson, L E, Koester, B P, Groeneboom, N, Brinckmann, T E, Kristensen, M T, LINDHOLMER, M O, Nielsen, A, KROGAGER, J-K, Fynbo, J P U

“…We report the discovery of a unique gravitational lens system, SDSS J2222+2745, producing five spectroscopically confirmed images of a z sub(s) = 2.82 quasar…”
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Closing in on a Short-Hard Burst Progenitor: Constraints from Early-Time Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Possible Host Galaxy of GRB 050509b by Bloom, J. S, Prochaska, J. X, Pooley, D, Blake, C. H, Foley, R. J, Jha, S, Ramirez-Ruiz, E, Granot, J, Filippenko, A. V, Sigurdsson, S, Barth, A. J, Chen, H.-W, Cooper, M. C, Falco, E. E, Gal, R. R, Gerke, B. F, Gladders, M. D, Greene, J. E, Hennanwi, J, Ho, L. C, Hurley, K, Koester, B. P, Li, W, Lubin, L, Newman, J, Perley, D. A, Squires, G. K, Wood-Vasey, W. M

“…The localization of the short-duration, hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst GRB 050509b by the Swift satellite was a watershed event. We report the discovery of the…”
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Micron-scale mapping of megagauss magnetic fields using optical polarimetry to probe hot electron transport in petawatt-class laser-solid interactions by Chatterjee, Gourab, Singh, Prashant Kumar, Robinson, A. P. L., Blackman, D., Booth, N., Culfa, O., Dance, R. J., Gizzi, L. A., Gray, R. J., Green, J. S., Koester, P., Kumar, G. Ravindra, Labate, L., Lad, Amit D., Lancaster, K. L., Pasley, J., Woolsey, N. C., Rajeev, P. P.

“…The transport of hot, relativistic electrons produced by the interaction of an intense petawatt laser pulse with a solid has garnered interest due to its…”
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Multibeam laser–plasma interaction at the Gekko XII laser facility in conditions relevant for direct-drive inertial confinement fusion by Cristoforetti, G., Koester, P., Atzeni, S., Batani, D., Fujioka, S., Hironaka, Y., Hüller, S., Idesaka, T., Katagiri, K., Kawasaki, K., Kodama, R., Mancelli, D., Nicolai, Ph, Ozaki, N., Schiavi, A., Shigemori, K., Takizawa, R., Tamagawa, T., Tanaka, D., Tentori, A., Umeda, Y., Yogo, A., Gizzi, L. A.

“…Laser–plasma interaction and hot electrons have been characterized in detail in laser irradiation conditions relevant for direct-drive inertial confinement…”
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The Dust Content of Galaxy Clusters by Chelouche, Doron, Koester, Benjamin P, Bowen, David V

“…We report on the detection of reddening toward z similar to 0.2 galaxy clusters. This is measured by correlating the Sloan Digital Sky Survey cluster and…”
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