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Barbara Baker is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific fields, primarily focusing on Medicine, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work extensively covers several specialized subfields, including:

  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Biotechnology
  • Immunology

Key research topics addressed by Barbara Baker include:

  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research

The scientist has contributed to a number of publications in notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Molecular Plant
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Plant Communications
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A selection of recent papers authored or coauthored by Barbara Baker includes:

  • High-quality assembled and annotated genomes of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana benthamiana reveal chromosome evolution and changes in defense arsenals (2024, Molecular Plant)
  • Polycistronic Artificial microRNA-Mediated Resistance to Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus in Cucumber (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • Fecal microbiome differs between patients with systemic sclerosis with and without small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (2021, Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders)
  • Clathrin light chains negatively regulate plant immunity by hijacking the autophagy pathway (2024, Plant Communications)
  • Conserved transcription factors NRZ1 and NRM1 regulate NLR receptor-mediated immunity (2024, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)

Barbara Baker has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Maggie Larché
  • Jenna M. Benoit
  • Jessica A. Breznik
  • Braeden Cowbrough
  • Ishac Nazy

Best Publications

  • The product of the tobacco mosaic virus resistance gene N: Similarity to toll and the interleukin-1 receptor

    Steven A. Whitham;S.P. Dinesh-Kumar;Doil Choi;Reinhard Hehl;Reinhard Hehl

  • Signaling in Plant-Microbe Interactions

    Barbara Baker;Patricia Zambryski;Brian Staskawicz;S. P. Dinesh-Kumar

  • Molecular genetics of plant disease resistance

    Brian J. Staskawicz;Frederick M. Ausubel;Barbara J. Baker;Jeffrey G. Ellis

  • MicroRNA Regulation of Plant Innate Immune Receptors

    Feng Li;Daniela Pignatta;Claire Bendix;Jacob O. Brunkard

  • The N gene of tobacco confers resistance to tobacco mosaic virus in transgenic tomato

    Steve Whitham;Sheila McCormick;Barbara Baker

  • Comparative genomics enabled the isolation of the R3a late blight resistance gene in potato.

    Sanwen Huang;Edwin A.G. Van Der Vossen;Hanhui Kuang;Vivianne G.A.A. Vleeshouwers

  • Alternatively spliced N resistance gene transcripts: Their possible role in tobacco mosaic virus resistance

    S. P. Dinesh-Kumar;Barbara J. Baker

  • Transposition of the maize controlling element “Activator” in tobacco

    Barbara Baker;Jeff Schell;Horst Lörz;Nina Fedoroff

  • Gene transfer to cereal cells mediated by protoplast transformation

    Horst Lörz;Barbara Baker;Jeff Schell

  • Structure-function analysis of the tobacco mosaic virus resistance gene N.

    S. P. Dinesh-Kumar;Wai-Hong Tham;Barbara J. Baker

  • VPEγ Exhibits a Caspase-like Activity that Contributes to Defense against Pathogens

    Enrique Rojo;Raquel Martı́n;Clay Carter;Jan Zouhar

  • Virus‐induced gene silencing in Solanum species

    Gianinna Brigneti;Ana M. Martín-Hernández;Hailing Jin;Hailing Jin;Judy Chen;Judy Chen

  • The helicase domain of the TMV replicase proteins induces the N-mediated defence response in tobacco.

    F. Les Erickson;F. Les Erickson;Steve Holzberg;Alejandro Calderon-Urrea;Alejandro Calderon-Urrea;Vanessa Handley;Vanessa Handley

  • NPK1, an MEKK1-like Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinase Kinase, Regulates Innate Immunity and Development in Plants

    Hailing Jin;Michael J. Axtell;Douglas Dahlbeck;Obi Ekwenna;Obi Ekwenna

  • Comparative Analyses of Potato Expressed Sequence Tag Libraries

    Catherine M. Ronning;Svetlana S. Stegalkina;Robert A. Ascenzi;Oleg Bougri

  • The tomato resistance protein Bs4 is a predicted non-nuclear TIR-NB-LRR protein that mediates defense responses to severely truncated derivatives of AvrBs4 and overexpressed AvrBs3.

    Sebastian Schornack;Agim Ballvora;Doreen Gürlebeck;Jack Peart

  • Function of a mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in N gene-mediated resistance in tobacco.

    Hailing Jin;Yidong Liu;Kwang-Yeol Yang;Cha Young Kim

  • Phenotypic assay for excision of the maize controlling element Ac in tobacco.

    B. Baker;G. Coupland;N. Fedoroff;P. Starlinger

  • Identification of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) and biogenesis of their siRNAs in the Solanaceae: New functional implications for MITEs

    Hanhui Kuang;Chellappan Padmanabhan;Feng Li;Ayako Kamei

  • The evolution of resistance genes in multi-protein plant resistance systems.

    Aaron R Friedman;Barbara J Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Schell
Jeff Schell Max Planck Society
Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar
Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar University of California, Davis
Brian J. Staskawicz
Brian J. Staskawicz University of California, Berkeley
Hailing Jin
Hailing Jin University of California, Riverside
Steven A. Whitham
Steven A. Whitham Iowa State University
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Horst Lörz
Horst Lörz Universität Hamburg
Douglas Dahlbeck
Douglas Dahlbeck University of California, Berkeley
George Coupland
George Coupland Max Planck Society
Fumiaki Katagiri
Fumiaki Katagiri University of Minnesota

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