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Tobias I. Baskin is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, they focus on several specialized subfields including Plant Science, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's work encompasses a broad scope of plant biology topics, notably Plant Molecular Biology Research and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism. Their interests also include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Plant Reproductive Biology, and Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls.

Recent papers that feature their research or collaboration include:

  • Mother trees, altruistic fungi, and the perils of plant personification (2023, Trends in Plant Science)
  • Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot (2020, iScience)
  • Cellulose assembles into helical bundles of uniform handedness in cell walls with abnormal pectin composition (2023, The Plant Journal)
  • Ethylene represses the promoting influence of cytokinin on cell division and expansion of cotyledons in etiolated Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings (2022, PeerJ)
  • Volumetric imaging of the 3D orientation of cellular structures with a polarized fluorescence light-sheet microscope (2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Talon Chandler
  • Min Guo
  • Yijun Su
  • Jiji Chen
  • Yicong Wu

Their work has been published in several notable scientific venues, such as:

  • The Plant Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • iScience

Best Publications

  • ANISOTROPIC EXPANSION OF THE PLANT CELL WALL

    Tobias I. Baskin

  • Analysis of Cell Division and Elongation Underlying the Developmental Acceleration of Root Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Gerrit T.S. Beemster;Tobias I. Baskin

  • On the alignment of cellulose microfibrils by cortical microtubules: a review and a model.

    Tobias I. Baskin

  • COBRA, an Arabidopsis Extracellular Glycosyl-Phosphatidyl Inositol-Anchored Protein, Specifically Controls Highly Anisotropic Expansion through Its Involvement in Cellulose Microfibril Orientation

    Francois Roudier;Anita G Fernandez;Machiko Fujita;Machiko Fujita;Regina Himmelspach

  • COBRA encodes a putative GPI-anchored protein, which is polarly localized and necessary for oriented cell expansion in Arabidopsis

    Gary Schindelman;Atsushi Morikami;Jee Jung;Tobias I. Baskin

  • Growth of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings under water deficit studied by control of water potential in nutrient-agar media

    Corine M. van der Weele;William G. Spollen;Robert E. Sharp;Tobias I. Baskin

  • Microtubule-dependent microtubule nucleation based on recruitment of gamma-tubulin in higher plants

    Takashi Murata;Takashi Murata;Seiji Sonobe;Tobias I. Baskin;Susumu Hyodo

  • Auxin, actin and growth of the Arabidopsis thaliana primary root

    Abidur Rahman;Alex Bannigan;Waheeda Sulaman;Priit Pechter

  • Two Leucine-Rich Repeat Receptor Kinases Mediate Signaling, Linking Cell Wall Biosynthesis and ACC Synthase in Arabidopsis

    Shou Ling Xu;Abidur Rahman;Tobias I. Baskin;Joseph J. Kieber

  • Temperature-Sensitive Alleles of RSW2 Link the KORRIGAN Endo-1,4-β-Glucanase to Cellulose Synthesis and Cytokinesis in Arabidopsis

    Diana R. Lane;Allison Wiedemeier;Liangcai Peng;Herman Höfte

  • Enhanced fixation reveals the apical cortical fringe of actin filaments as a consistent feature of the pollen tube

    Alenka Lovy-Wheeler;Kathleen L. Wilsen;Tobias I. Baskin;Peter K. Hepler

  • Regulation of root elongation under phosphorus stress involves changes in ethylene responsiveness.

    Zhong Ma;Tobias I. Baskin;Kathleen M. Brown;Jonathan P. Lynch

  • Identification of a cellulose synthase-associated protein required for cellulose biosynthesis

    Ying Gu;Nick Kaplinsky;Martin Bringmann;Alex Cobb

  • Morphology and Microtubule Organization in Arabidopsis Roots Exposed to Oryzalin or Taxol

    Tobias I. Baskin;Jan E. Wilson;Ann Cork;Richard E. Williamson

  • Improvements in immunostaining samples embedded in methacrylate: localization of microtubules and other antigens throughout developing organs in plants of diverse taxa.

    Tobias I. Baskin;Catherine H. Busby;Larry C. Fowke;Margaret Sammut

  • 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.

    Corine M. van der Weele;Hai S. Jiang;Krishnan K. Palaniappan;Viktor B. Ivanov

  • Root morphology mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana

    TI Baskin;AS Betzner;R Hoggart;A Cork

  • Disorganization of Cortical Microtubules Stimulates Tangential Expansion and Reduces the Uniformity of Cellulose Microfibril Alignment among Cells in the Root of Arabidopsis

    Tobias I. Baskin;Gerrit T.S. Beemster;Jan E. Judy-March;Françoise Marga

  • STUNTED PLANT 1 Mediates Effects of Cytokinin, But Not of Auxin, on Cell Division and Expansion in the Root of Arabidopsis

    Gerrit T.S. Beemster;Tobias I. Baskin

  • Inhibitors of protein kinases and phosphatases alter root morphology and disorganize cortical microtubules.

    T. I. Baskin;J. E. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Kannappan Palaniappan
Kannappan Palaniappan University of Missouri
Peter K. Hepler
Peter K. Hepler University of Massachusetts Amherst
Robert E. Sharp
Robert E. Sharp University of Missouri
Geoffrey O. Wasteneys
Geoffrey O. Wasteneys University of British Columbia
Gerrit T.S. Beemster
Gerrit T.S. Beemster University of Antwerp
Winslow R. Briggs
Winslow R. Briggs Carnegie Institution for Science
Chris Somerville
Chris Somerville University of California, Berkeley
Malcolm J. Bennett
Malcolm J. Bennett University of Nottingham
Philip N. Benfey
Philip N. Benfey Duke University
Azeddine Driouich
Azeddine Driouich University of Rouen

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