Professor Tobias I. Baskin

Biology Department
106 Morrill III
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Tel: +1-423-545-1533; Fax: +1-413-545-3243
E-mail: Baskin@bio.umass.edu
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/baskin/
Area of expertise: Growth anisotropy; cell wall, division and expansion, cytoskeleton and root growth
Co-editor until: Oct. 31, 2010

• Baskin TI (2007) Ultradian growth oscillations in organs: Physiological signal or noise? In Rhythms in Plants: Phenomenology, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance . S Mancuso & S Shabala (eds), Springer, Berlin. 63-76.
• Rahman A, Bannigan A, Sulaman W, Pechter P, Blancaflor EB, Baskin TI (2007) Auxin, actin, and growth of the Arabidopsis thaliana primary root. Plant J. 50,: 514-528.
• Rahman A, Nakasone A, Chhun T, Ooura C, Biswas KK, Uchimiya H, Tsurumi S, Baskin TI, Tanaka A, Oono Y (2006) A small acidic protein 1 (SMAP1) mediates responses of the arabidopsis root to the synthetic auxin 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Plant J. 47, 788-801.
• Bannigan A, Wiedemeier AMD, Williamson RE, Overall RL, Baskin TI (2006) Cortical microtubule arrays lose uniform alignment between cells and are oryzalin resistant in the arabidopsis mutant, radially swollen 6. Plant Cell Physiol. 47, 949-958.
• Baskin TI (2006) Imaging the primary cell wall. In The Science and Lore of the Plant Cell Wall , ed. Hiyashi T, BrownWalker, Boca Raton. 11-22.
• Peters WS, Baskin TI (2006) Tailor-made composite functions as tools in model choice: the case of sigmoidal vs bi-linear growth profiles. Plant Methods 2,11.
• Murata T, Sonobe S, Baskin TI, Hyodo S, Hasezawa S, Nagata T, Horio T, Hasebe M (2005) Microtubule-dependent microtubule nucleation based on recruitment of g-tubulin in higher plants. Nat. Cell Biol. 7, 961 - 968.
• Baskin TI (2005) Anisotropic expansion of the plant cell wall. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 21, 203 - 222.
• Marga F, Grandbois M, Cosgrove DJ, Baskin TI (2005) Cell wall extension results in the coordinate separation of parallel microfibrils: Evidence from scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Plant J. 43, 18-190.
• Roudier F, Fernandez AG, Fujita M, Himmelspach R, Borner GHH, Schindelman G, Song S, Baskin TI, Dupree P, Wasteneys GO, Benfey PN (2005) COBRA, an extracellular GPI-anchored protein, specifically controls highly anisotropic expansion through its involvement in cellulose microfibril orientation. Plant Cell 17, 1749-1763.
• Eleftheriou EP, Baskin TI, Hepler PK (2005) Aberrant cell plate formation in the Arabidopsis thaliana microtubule organization 1 mutant. Plant Cell Physiol. 46, 671 -675.
• Lovy-Wheeler A, Wilsen KL, Baskin TI, Hepler PK (2005) Enhanced fixation reveals the apical cortical fringe of actin filaments as a consistent feature of the pollen tube. Planta 221, 95-104.
• Baskin TI, Beemster GTS, Judy-March JE, Marga F (2004) Disorganization of cortical microtubules stimulates tangential expansion and reduces the uniformity of cellulose microfibril alignment among cells in the root of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 135, 2279-2290.
• Tian GW, Smith D, Glück S, Baskin TI (2004) The higher plant cortical microtubule array analyzed in vitro in the presence of the cell wall. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 57, 26-36.
• Sivaguru M, Pike S, Gassmann W, Baskin TI (2003) Aluminum rapidly depolymerizes cortical microtubules and depolarizes the plasma membrane: Evidence that these responses are mediated by a glutamate receptor. Plant Cell Physiol. 44, 667-675.
• van der Weele CM, Jiang H, Palaniappan KK, Ivanov VB, Palaniappan K, Baskin TI (2003) A new algorithm for computational image analysis of deformable motion at high spatial and temporal resolution applied to root growth: Roughly uniform elongation in the meristem and also, after an abrupt acceleration, in the elongation zone. Plant Physiol. 132, 1138-1148.
• Ma Z, Baskin TI, Brown KM, Lynch JP (2003) Regulation of root elongation under phosphorus stress involves changes in ethylene responsiveness. Plant Physiol. 131, 1381-1390.
• Wiedemeier AMD, Judy-March JE, Hocart CH, Wasteneys GO, Williamson RE, Baskin TI (2002) Mutant alleles of arabidopsis RADIALLY SWOLLEN 4 and RSW7 reduce growth anisotropy without altering the transverse orientation of cortical microtubules or cellulose microfibrils. Development 129, 4821-4830.
• Andème-Onzighi C, Sivaguru M, Judy-March J, Baskin TI, Driouich A (2002) The reb1-1 mutation of Arabidopsis alters the morphology of trichoblasts, the expression of arabinogalactan-proteins and the organization of cortical microtubules. Planta 215, 949-958.
• Schindelman G, Morikami A, Jung J, Baskin TI, Carpita NC, Derbyshire P, McCann MC, Benfey PN (2001) COBRA encodes a putative GPI-anchored protein, which is polarly localized and necessary for oriented cell expansion in Arabidopsis. Genes Dev. 15, 1115-1127.
• Lane DR, Wiedemeier A, Peng L, Höfte H, Hocart CH, Birch RJ, Baskin TI, Burn JE, Arioli T, Betzner AS, Williamson RE (2001) Temperature-sensitive alleles of radially swollen2 link the KORRIGAN endo-1,4-ß-glucanase to cellulose synthesis and cytokinesis. Plant Physiol. 126, 278-288.
• Baskin TI, Remillong EL, Wilson JE (2001) The impact of mannose and other carbon sources on the elongation and diameter of the primary root of Arabidopsis thaliana. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 28, 481-488.
• Baskin TI, Meekes HTHM, Liang BM, Sharp RE (1999) Regulation of growth anisotropy in well watered and water-stressed maize roots. II. Role of cortical microtubules and cellulose microfibrils. Plant Physiol. 119, 681-692.
• Beemster GTS, Baskin TI (2000) STUNTED PLANT 1 mediates effects of cytokinin, but not of auxin, on cell division and expansion in the root of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 124, 1718-1727.
• Beemster GTS, Baskin TI (1998) Analysis of cell division and elongation underlying the developmental acceleration of root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 116,: 1515-1526.
• van der Weele CM, Spollen WG, Sharp RE, Baskin TI (2000) Growth of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings under water deficit studied by control of water potential in nutrient-agar media. J. Exp. Bot. 51, 1555-1562.
• Liang BM, Sharp RE, Baskin TI (1997) Regulation of growth anisotropy in well watered and water-stressed maize roots I. Spatial distribution of longitudinal, radial and tangential expansion rates. Plant Physiol. 115, 101-111.