Baskin Lab | Biology Department | University of Massachusetts Amherst


	Research interests, Methods and Publications Research interests: Growth anisotropy Cell division and expansion Methods: RootflowRT : Deformable motion estimation for biology Polarized light microscopy Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy Butyl-methyl-methacrylate embedding Selected Publications: Live search on PubMed for author=BaskinTI: 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, pp. 63 - 76. pdf: Baskin 2007. Rahman A, Bannigan A, Sulaman W, Pechter P, Blancaflor EB, Baskin TI (2007) Auxin, actin, and growth of the Arabidopsis thaliana primary root. Plant Journal 50: 514–528. pdf: Rahman et al. 2007. 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 Journal 47: 788 – 801. pdf: Rahman et al. 2006. 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 and Cell Physiology 47: 949 – 958. pdf: Bannigan et al. 2006. Baskin TI (2006) Imaging the primary cell wall. In The Science and Lore of the Plant Cell Wall, ed. Hiyashi T, BrownWalker, Boca Raton, pp. 11 – 22. pdf: Baskin 2006. 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 2:12 (electronic medium, no page #s). pdf: Peters and Baskin 2006. 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. Nature Cell Biology 7: 961 - 968. pdf: Murata et al. 2005. Baskin TI (2005) Anisotropic expansion of the plant cell wall. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 21: 203 - 222. pdf: Baskin 2005. 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 Journal 43: 181 – 190. pdf: Marga et al. 2005. 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. pdf: Roudier et al. 2005. Eleftheriou EP, Baskin TI, Hepler PK (2005) Aberrant cell plate formation in the Arabidopsis thaliana microtubule organization 1 mutant. Plant and Cell Physiology 46: 671 – 675. pdf: Eleftheriou et al. 2005. 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. pdf: Lovy-Wheeler et al. 2005. 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 Physiology 135: 2279 - 2290. pdf: Baskin et al. 2004. 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 Motility and the Cytoskeleton 57: 26-36. pdf: Tian et al. 2004. 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 and Cell Physiology 44: 667–-675. pdf: Sivaguru et al. 2003. 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 Physiology 132: 1138-1148. pdf: vanderWeele et al. 2003. Ma Z, Baskin TI, Brown KM, Lynch JP (2003) Regulation of root elongation under phosphorus stress involves changes in ethylene responsiveness. Plant Physiology 131: 1381—1390. pdf: Ma et al. 2003 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. pdf: Wiedemeier et al. 2002 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. pdf: Andeme-Onzighi et al. 2002 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 and Development 15: 1115 - 1127. pdf: Schindelman et al. 2001 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 Physiology 126: 278 - 288. pdf: Lane et al. 2001 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. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 28: 481-488. pdf: Baskin et al. 2001 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 Physiology 119: 681 - 692. pdf: Baskin et al. 1999 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 Physiology 124: 1718 - 1727. pdf: Beemster & Baskin 2000 Beemster GTS, Baskin TI (1998) Analysis of cell division and elongation underlying the developmental acceleration of root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology 116: 1515 - 1526. pdf: Beemster & Baskin 1998 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. Journal of Experimental Botany 51: 1555 - 1562. pdf: van der Weele et al. 2000 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 Physiology 115: 101 - 111. pdf: Liang et al. 1997

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