Foundational Papers
Papers highlighted in black are considered the most relevant to our current projects.
Allsman, L. A., Bellinger, M. A., Huang, V., Duong, M., Contreras, A., Romero, A. N., Verboonen, B., Sidhu, S., Zhang, X., Steinkraus, H., Uyehara, A. N., Martinez, S. E., Sinclair, R. M., Soriano, G. S., Diep, B., Byrd V, D., Noriega, A., Drakakaki, G., Sylvester, A. W., & Rasmussen, C. G. (2023). Subcellular positioning during cell division and cell plate formation in maize. Frontiers in plant science, 14, 1204889. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1204889
Somssich, M. (2022). The dawn of plant molecular biology: How three key methodologies paved the way. Current Protocols, 2, e417. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.417
Bellinger, M. A., Uyehara, A. N., Allsman, L., Martinez, P., McCarthy, M. C., & Rasmussen, C. G. (2023). Cortical microtubules contribute to division plane positioning during telophase in maize. The Plant cell, 35(5), 1496–1512. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad033
Alison M Mills and others, The localization of PHRAGMOPLAST ORIENTING KINESIN1 at the division site depends on the microtubule-binding proteins TANGLED1 and AUXIN-INDUCED IN ROOT CULTURES9 in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, Volume 34, Issue 11, November 2022, Pages 4583–4599, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac266
Motta, M. R., & Schnittger, A. (2021). A microtubule perspective on plant cell division. Current biology : CB, 31(10), R547–R552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.087
Farrow, J., Bellinger, M. A. and Rasmussen, C. G. (2020). In vitro Conditions for Dark Growth and Analysis of Maize Seedlings. Bio-101: e3555. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3555.
Somssich, M. (2022). The dawn of plant molecular biology: How three key methodologies paved the way. Current Protocols, 2, e417. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.417
Bellinger, M. A., Sidhu, S. K. and Rasmussen, C. G. (2019). Staining Maize Epidermal Leaf Peels with Toluidine Blue O. Bio-101: e3214. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3214.
Rasmussen, C. G., & Bellinger, M. (2018). An overview of plant division-plane orientation. The New phytologist, 219(2), 505–512. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15183
Stöckle, D., Herrmann, A., Lipka, E. et al. Putative RopGAPs impact division plane selection and interact with kinesin-12 POK1. Nature Plants 2, 16120 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.120
Weiberg, A., Bellinger, M., & Jin, H. (2015). Conversations between kingdoms: small RNAs. Current opinion in biotechnology, 32, 207–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2014.12.025
Weiberg, A., Wang, M., Bellinger, M., & Jin, H. (2014). Small RNAs: a new paradigm in plant-microbe interactions. Annual review of phytopathology, 52, 495–516. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-phyto-102313-045933
Hamada T. (2014). Microtubule organization and microtubule-associated proteins in plant cells. International review of cell and molecular biology, 312, 1–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800178-3.00001-4
Elisabeth Lipka and others, The Phragmoplast-Orienting Kinesin-12 Class Proteins Translate the Positional Information of the Preprophase Band to Establish the Cortical Division Zone in Arabidopsis thaliana, The Plant Cell, Volume 26, Issue 6, June 2014, Pages 2617–2632, https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.114.124933
Ambrose, C., Allard, J., Cytrynbaum, E. et al. A CLASP-modulated cell edge barrier mechanism drives cell-wide cortical microtubule organization in Arabidopsis. Nat Commun 2, 430 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1444
Carolyn G. Rasmussen, Brian Sun, Laurie G. Smith; Tangled localization at the cortical division site of plant cells occurs by several mechanisms. J Cell Sci 15 January 2011; 124 (2): 270–279. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.073676
Ehrhardt, D. W., & Shaw, S. L. (2006). Microtubule dynamics and organization in the plant cortical array. Annual review of plant biology, 57, 859–875. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.arplant.57.032905.105329
Dhonukshe, P., Mathur, J., Hülskamp, M. et al. Microtubule plus-ends reveal essential links between intracellular polarization and localized modulation of endocytosis during division-plane establishment in plant cells . BMC Biol 3, 11 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-3-11
Geoffrey O. Wasteneys; Microtubule organization in the green kingdom: chaos or self-order?. J Cell Sci 1 April 2002; 115 (7): 1345–1354. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.115.7.1345
Reddy, A.S., Day, I.S. Kinesins in the Arabidopsis genome: A comparative analysis among eukaryotes. BMC Genomics 2, 2 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-2-2
Keiko Sugimoto and others, New Techniques Enable Comparative Analysis of Microtubule Orientation, Wall Texture, and Growth Rate in Intact Roots of Arabidopsis, Plant Physiology, Volume 124, Issue 4, December 2000, Pages 1493–1506, https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.124.4.1493