Publications

2025

Fostering rehydration and facilitating bioactive release through cellulose-assisted leaf surface treatment

Jiang S, Li P, Li L, Amiralian N, Rajah D, Xu ZP. Carbohydrate Polymers. 2025;347:122732. 10.1016/j.carbpol.2024.122732

2024

Mycologists and Virologists Align: Proposing Botrytis cinerea for Global Mycovirus Studies

Khalifa ME, Ayllón MA, Rodriguez Coy L, Plummer KM, Gendall AR, Chooi KM, et al. Viruses. 2024;16(9):1483

The genomes of two Australian isolates of Verticillium dahliae recovered from cotton fields

Gardiner DM, Smith LJ, Rusu A, Aitken EAB. Australasian Plant Pathology. 2024;53(5):435-41. 10.1007/s13313-024-00993-5

dsRNAmax: a Multi-Target Chimeric dsRNA Designer for Safe And Effective Crop Protection

Fletcher SJ, Lawrence J, Sawyer A, Manzie N, Gardiner D, Mitter N, et al. bioRxiv. 2024:2024.12.15.628581. 10.1101/2024.12.15.628581

Intragenomic variants of a putative effector drive early-stage infection in a broad host-range rust fungus

Degnan RM, Sawyer A, Gardiner DM, Luo Z, Frampton R, Schwessinger B, et al. bioRxiv. 2024:2024.11.28.625939. 10.1101/2024.11.28.625939

Fluorescently Tagged Verticillium dahliae to Understand the Infection Process on Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) and Weed Plant Species

Chen A, Morrison S, Gregson A, Le DP, Urquhart AS, Smith LJ, et al. Pathogens. 2024;13(6):442

Assessing the Pathogenicity of Berkeleyomyces rouxiae and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum on Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Using a Rapid and Robust Seedling Screening Method

Chen A, Le DP, Smith LJ, Kafle D, Aitken EAB, Gardiner DM. Journal of Fungi. 2024;10(10):715.

2023

Genome-wide identification of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum small RNAs and their endogenous targets

Regmi R, Newman TE, Khentry Y, Kamphuis LG, Derbyshire MC. BMC Genomics. 2023;24(1):582. 10.1186/s12864-023-09686-7

Artificial nanovesicles for dsRNA delivery in spray-induced gene silencing for crop protection

Qiao L, Niño-Sánchez J, Hamby R, Capriotti L, Chen A, Mezzetti B, et al. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2023;21(4):854-65. 10.1111/pbi.14001

RNA-Based Control of Fungal Pathogens in Plants

Mann CWG, Sawyer A, Gardiner DM, Mitter N, Carroll BJ, Eamens AL. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2023;24(15):12391.

Effectively enhancing topical delivery of agrochemicals onto plant leaves with nanocelluloses

Jiang S, Li P, Li L, Amiralian N, Rajah D, Xu ZP. Green Chemistry. 2023;25(20):8253-65. 10.1039/D3GC02995F

Botrytis cinerea small RNAs are associated with tomato AGO1 and silence tomato target genes supporting cross-kingdom RNAi between the fungal pathogen B. cinerea and its tomato host

He B, Cai Q, Weiberg A, Cheng A-P, Ouyang S, Borkovich K, et al. bioRxiv. 2023:2022.12.30.522274. 10.1101/2022.12.30.522274

Double-stranded RNA prevents and cures infection by rust fungi

Degnan RM, Shuey LS, Radford-Smith J, Gardiner DM, Carroll BJ, Mitter N, et al. Communications Biology. 2023;6(1):1234. 10.1038/s42003-023-05618-z

Exogenous double-stranded RNA inhibits the infection physiology of rust fungi to reduce symptoms in planta

Degnan RM, McTaggart AR, Shuey LS, Pame LJS, Smith GR, Gardiner DM, et al. Molecular Plant Pathology. 2023;24(3):191-207. 10.1111/mpp.13286

2022

Clay nanoparticles efficiently deliver small interfering RNA to intact plant leaf cells

Yong J, Wu M, Zhang R, Bi S, Mann CWG, Mitter N, et al. Plant Physiology. 2022;190(4):2187-202. 10.1093/plphys/kiac430

Material Nanotechnology Is Sustaining Modern Agriculture

Xu ZP. ACS Agricultural Science & Technology. 2022;2(2):232-9. 10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00204

Mycovirus-encoded suppressors of RNA silencing: Possible allies or enemies in the use of RNAi to control fungal disease in crops

Rodriguez Coy L, Plummer KM, Khalifa ME, MacDiarmid RM. Frontiers in Fungal Biology. 2022;Volume 3 – 202210.3389/ffunb.2022.965781

BioClay™ prolongs RNA interference-mediated crop protection against Botrytis cinerea

Niño-Sánchez J, Sambasivam PT, Sawyer A, Hamby R, Chen A, Czislowski E, et al. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 2022;64(11):2187-98. 10.1111/jipb.13353

Tospoviruses Induce Small Interfering RNAs Targeting Viral Sequences and Endogenous Transcripts in Solanaceous Plants

Fletcher SJ, Peters JR, Olaya C, Persley DM, Dietzgen RG, Carroll BJ, et al. Pathogens. 2022;11(7):745.

Trends in Layered Double Hydroxides-Based Advanced Nanocomposites: Recent Progress and Latest Advancements

Chen B-Q, Xia H-Y, Mende LK, Lee C-H, Wang S-B, Chen A-Z, et al. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 2022;9(22):2200373. 10.1002/admi.202200373

2021

Sheet-like clay nanoparticles deliver RNA into developing pollen to efficiently silence a target gene

Yong J, Zhang R, Bi S, Li P, Sun L, Mitter N, et al. Plant Physiology. 2021;187(2):886-99. 10.1093/plphys/kiab303

Spray-induced gene silencing for disease control is dependent on the efficiency of pathogen RNA uptake

Qiao L, Lan C, Capriotti L, Ah-Fong A, Nino Sanchez J, Hamby R, et al. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2021;19(9):1756-68. 10.1111/pbi.13589

RNAs — a new frontier in crop protection

Niu D, Hamby R, Sanchez JN, Cai Q, Yan Q, Jin H. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 2021;70:204-12. 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.06.005

Eco-friendly biomolecule-nanomaterial hybrids as next-generation agrochemicals for topical delivery

Li P, Huang Y, Fu C, Jiang SX, Peng W, Jia Y, et al. EcoMat. 2021;3(5):e12132. 10.1002/eom2.12132

Intact double stranded RNA is mobile and triggers RNAi against viral and fungal plant pathogens

Brosnan CA, Sawyer A, de Felippes FF, Carroll BJ, Waterhouse PM, Mitter N. bioRxiv. 2021:2021.11.24.469772. 10.1101/2021.11.24.469772

miRNA communication on another level

Brosnan CA, Mitter N. Nature Plants. 2021;7(10):1328-9. 10.1038/s41477-021-01006-9