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Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur current focus is on maize anther development to understand how cell fate is specified. We discovered that hypoxia triggers specification of the archesporial (pre-meiotic) cells, and that these cells secrete a small protein MAC1 that patterns the adjacent soma to differentiate as endothecial and secondary parietal cell types. We also discovered a novel class of small RNA: 21-nt and 24-nt phasiRNAs that are exceptionally abundant in anthers and exhibit strict spatiotemporal dynamics.

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Ginny Walbot

Tiffany Walden

Graduate, Communication

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Andrew G. Walder

Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor of the Humanities and Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science

Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMarket reforms in China; and political movements in China during the Cultural Revolution.

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- Asia-Pacific Research Center
- Encina Hall, 3rd Floor
- Room C320
- Stanford, California 94305
Mail Code: 2047
(650) 723-6530 (fax)
Walder@stanford.edu