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Lucas Roberts

Yext Inc. NYC
Verified email at vt.edu
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Molecular parallelism underlies convergent highland adaptation of maize landraces

…, EB Josephs, KM Lee, LM Roberts… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Convergent phenotypic evolution provides some of the strongest evidence for adaptation.
However, the extent to which recurrent phenotypic adaptation has arisen via parallelism at the …

Leaf stable carbon isotope composition reflects transpiration efficiency in Zea mays

RJ Twohey III, LM Roberts, AJ Studer - The Plant Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing demand for food production and predicted climate change scenarios highlight
the need for improvements in crop sustainability. The efficient use of water will become …

Cover crop and root pruning impacts on vegetative growth, crop yield components, and grape composition of Cabernet Sauvignon

…, TK Wolf, C Velasco-Cruz, L Roberts… - … Journal of Enology …, 2015 - Am Soc Enol Viticulture
Complete vineyard floor cover cropping (inter- and intrarow) and vine root pruning were
evaluated as tools to restrict vegetative growth of Vitis vinifera cv. Cabernet Sauvignon …

[HTML][HTML] Plant breeding for intercropping in temperate field crop systems: a review

VM Moore, B Schlautman, S Fei, LM Roberts… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Monoculture cropping systems currently dominate temperate agroecosystems. However,
intercropping can provide valuable benefits, including greater yield stability, increased total …

Complete vineyard floor cover crops favorably limit grapevine vegetative growth

G Giese, C Velasco-Cruz, L Roberts, J Heitman… - Scientia horticulturae, 2014 - Elsevier
Complete vineyard floor cover crops were evaluated in a long-term study for their ability to
regulate excessive vegetative growth of the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) variety ‘Cabernet …

QR and LQ Decomposition Matrix Backpropagation Algorithms for Square, Wide, and Deep--Real or Complex--Matrices and Their Software Implementation

DAO Roberts, LR Roberts - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.10071, 2020 - arxiv.org
This article presents matrix backpropagation algorithms for the QR decomposition of matrices
$A_{m, n}$, that are either square (m = n), wide (m < n), or deep (m > n), with rank $k = min(…

Nearest-neighbor matchup effects: accounting for team matchups for predicting March Madness

…, M Carzolio, I Crandell, X Hu, L Roberts… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2015 - degruyter.com
Recently, the surge of predictive analytics competitions has improved sports predictions by
fostering data-driven inference and steering clear of human bias. This article details methods …

Gini-regularized optimal transport with an application to spatio-temporal forecasting

L Roberts, L Razoumov, L Su, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02512, 2017 - arxiv.org
Rapidly growing product lines and services require a finer-granularity forecast that considers
geographic locales. However the open question remains, how to assess the quality of a …

Cover crop and root pruning effects on the rooting pattern of SO4 rootstock grafted to Cabernet sauvignon

…, C Velasco-Cruz, L Roberts - American Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Enol Viticulture
Root biomass, root intercepts, and root length density of SO4 rootstock grafted to Cabernet
Sauvignon and exposed to under-trellis cover cropping (CC) and with or without root pruning (…

The genetic architecture of leaf stable carbon isotope composition in Zea mays and the effect of transpiration efficiency on leaf elemental accumulation

CA Sorgini, LM Roberts, M Sullivan, AB Cousins… - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
With increased demand on freshwater resources for agriculture, it is imperative that more
water-use efficient crops are developed. Leaf stable carbon isotope composition, δ 13 C, is a …