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Donald Max Gardiner

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationORCID 0000-0002-2162-8716Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 3 Genetics· 2 Genomics· 1 Microbiology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Assay:protein sequence· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Organism:fungi (other)· 2 Organism:plant (other)· 2 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 2 Research Focus:software / tool· 2

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

Stephen J. Fletcher, JF Lawrence, Anne Sawyer, Narelle Manzie, Donald Max Gardiner, Neena Mitter, Christopher Andrew Brosnan

dsRNAmax designs chimeric dsRNA sequences to target multiple pest or pathogen genes while avoiding off-target effects in non-target organisms.

NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics · Mar 29, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

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

Rebecca M. Degnan, Anne Sawyer, Donald Max Gardiner, Zhenyan Luo, Rebekah A. Frampton, Benjamin Schwessinger, Neena Mitter, Brent S. Carroll, Grant R. Smith, Alistair R. McTaggart, Louise Simone Shuey

The paper investigates how intragenomic variants of an effector gene influence early infection in the rust fungus Austropuccinia psidii.

bioRxiv · Nov 28, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology

A natural fungal gene drive enacts killing through targeting DNA

Andrew S. Urquhart, Donald Max Gardiner

The paper identifies Spok1, a fungal spore killer protein, as a DNA-targeting agent that causes killing in fungi and functions across bacteria and yeast.

bioRxiv · Jan 19, 2022 · PreprintGenetics

Unlocking inaccessible historical genomes preserved in formalin

Erin E. Hahn, Marina R. Alexander, Alicia C. Grealy, Jiri Stiller, Donald Max Gardiner, Clare E. Holleley

This study improves genomic analysis of formalin-preserved specimens by refining processing methods and identifying predictors of sequencing success, enabling complete mitochondrial genomes and up to 3X nuclear coverage.

Molecular Ecology Resources · Sep 22, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics

Natural gene drives offer potential pathogen control strategies in plants

Donald Max Gardiner, Anca G. Rusu, Luke G. Barrett, Gavin C. Hunter, Kemal Kazan

The paper demonstrates that a natural gene drive can be used to remove pathogenic traits from Fusarium graminearum populations in three generations.

bioRxiv · Apr 5, 2020 · PreprintGenetics

Improved prediction of fungal effector proteins from secretomes with EffectorP 2.0

Jana Sperschneider, Peter N. Dodds, Donald Max Gardiner, Karam B. Singh, Jennifer M. Taylor

EffectorP 2.0 improves fungal effector protein prediction with higher accuracy and reduced false positives compared to previous versions.

Molecular Plant Pathology · Mar 22, 2018Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

LOCALIZER: subcellular localization prediction of plant and effector proteins in the plant cell

Jana Sperschneider, Ann‐Maree Catanzariti, Kathleen DeBoer, Benjamin Pêtre, Donald Max Gardiner, Karam B. Singh, Peter N. Dodds, Jennifer M. Taylor

LOCALIZER predicts subcellular localization of plant and effector proteins, showing improved accuracy for chloroplast and mitochondrial targeting and identifying a new chloroplast transit peptide in ToxA.

Scientific Reports · Mar 16, 2017Peer-reviewedBioinformatics