Publications by authors named "Daniel Naylor"
Carbon is cycled through the air, plants, and belowground environment. Understanding soil carbon cycling in deep soil profiles will be important to mitigate climate change. Soil carbon cycling is impacted by water, plants, and soil microorganisms, in addition to soil mineralogy.
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- The study aimed to understand the preferences of North Wales dentists in interacting with the North Wales Local Dental Committee (NWLDC) through a descriptive cross-sectional survey.
- Out of 167 responses, the majority of dentists preferred communication via email notifications (88%) and virtual meetings (52.1%), while many showed disinterest in attending LDC meetings directly.
- The findings suggest a need for improved communication methods and indicate that an ideal NWLDC website should enhance information accessibility, as many dentists infrequently use the current site.
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- A survey of North Wales dentists was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of communication methods used by the North Wales Local Dental Committee (NWLDC) in engaging its members.
- Out of 167 responses, a significant majority of dentists reported receiving insufficient information and very few attended LDC meetings regularly, indicating a disconnect between the committee and its members.
- The findings highlighted a need for improved clarity about the LDC's role and meeting attendance, as current communication strategies are failing to effectively engage the dental community.
Terroir, the unique interaction between genotype, environment, and culture, is highly refined in domesticated grape (Vitis vinifera). Toward cultivating terroir, the science of ampelography tried to distinguish thousands of grape cultivars without the aid of genetics. This led to sophisticated phenotypic analyses of natural variation in grape leaves, which within a palmate-lobed framework exhibit diverse patterns of blade outgrowth, hirsuteness, and venation patterning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpiral phyllotactic patterning is the result of intricate auxin transport relationships in the shoot apical meristem (SAM) that act to place auxin maxima at the future sites of leaf initiation. Inherent to this process is a bias in auxin distribution in leaf primordia, such that increased auxin is found on the descending side of the leaf (toward the older neighbor) compared to the ascending side (toward the younger neighbor), creating phyllotactically dependent leaf asymmetry. Separate from phyllotactic-dependent asymmetry is handedness in plants - that is, genetically encoded, fixed chirality, such as the twining of certain vines and the torsions induced by microtubule mutations.
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