We work on the jasmonate pathway which controls plant immunity to herbivores. Jasmonates are lipid-derived molecules which accumulate rapidly when a plant is attacked or wounded. Our recent work has shown that the signal travelling from a wound to distal leaves has an average speed of about 4 cm per min. We have a second project on non-enzymatic lipid oxidation. We use Arabidopsis as a genetic tool to study this process and we concentrate on aspects that would be difficult to address in animals.

• Jasmonate Precursor Biosynthetic Enzymes LOX3 and LOX4 Control Wound-Response Growth Restriction
  Yang, Tsu-Hao; Lenglet-Hilfiker, Aurore; Stolz, Stephanie; Glauser, Gaetan; Farmer, Edward E.
  Plant Physiology,  10.1104/pp.20.00471, OCT 2020
• Wound- and mechanostimulated electrical signals control hormone responses
  Farmer, Edward E.; Gao, Yong-Qiang; Lenzoni, Gioia; Wolfender, Jean-Luc; Wu, Qian
  New Phytologist  DOI: 10.1111/nph.16646 Published: AUG 2020
• Plant surface metabolites as potent antifungal agents
  Dubey, Olga; Dubey, Sylvain; Schnee, Sylvain; Glauser, Gaetan; Nawrath, Christiane; Gindro, Katia; Farmer, Edward E
  Plant Physiology And Biochemistry,  DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.02.026  MAY 2020
• Insect-damaged Arabidopsis moves like wounded Mimosa pudica
  Kurenda, Andrzej; Chi Tam Nguyen; Chetelat, Aurore; Stolz, Stephanie; Farmer, Edward E.
  Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912386116, DEC 17 2019,
• Regulatory Oxylipins Anno 2019: Jasmonates Galore in the Plant Oxylipin Research Community
  Goossens, Alain; Farmer, Edward E.
  Plant And Cell Physiology, 10.1093/pcp/pcz197, Published: DEC 2019
• Arabidopsis H+-ATPase AHA1 controls slow wave potential duration and wound-response jasmonate pathway activation
  Kumari, Archana; Chetelat, Aurore; Nguyen, Chi Tam; Farmer Edward E.
  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 116(40): 20226-20231, 10.1073/pnas.1907379116, OCT 2019
• Jasmonates: what ALLENE OXIDE SYNTHASE does for plants
  Farmer, EE; Goossens, A
  JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 70 (13):3373-3378; SI 10.1093/jxb/erz254 JUN 15 2019
• Single-cell damage elicits regional, nematode-restricting ethylene responses in roots
  Marhavy, P; Kurenda, A; Siddique, S; Tendon, VD; Zhou, F; Holbein, J; Hasan, MS; Grundler, FMW; Farmer, EE; Geldner, N
  EMBO JOURNAL, 38 (10):10.15252/embj.2018100972 MAY 15 2019
• Identification of cell populations necessary for leaf-to-leaf electrical signaling in a wounded plant
  Nguyen, CT; Kurenda, A; Stolz, S; Chetelat, A; Farmer, EE
  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 115 (40):10178-10183; 10.1073/pnas.1807049115 OCT 2 2018
• Control of basal jasmonate signalling and defence through modulation of intracellular cation flux capacity 
  Lenglet, Aurore; Jaslan, Dawid; Toyota, Masatsugu; et al. 
  NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 216 (4): 1161-1169 10.1111/nph.14754 DEC 2017 
• Emerging Jasmonate Transporters 
  Chi Tam Nguyen; Martinoia, Enrico; Farmer, Edward E. 
  MOLECULAR PLANT, 10 (5): 659-661 10.1016/j.molp.2017.03.007 MAY 1 2017
• Short distance cell-to-cell communication in response to wound stress in Arabidopsis root
  Marhavy, P.; Kurenda, A.; Siddique, S. et al.
  FEBS JOURNAL, SEP 2017
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• Plant defense
• Systemic signalling  
• Jasmonates  
• Lipid oxidation

• SystemsX.ch (physics)  
• University of Geneva (metabolomics)  
• University of Lausanne (electrophysiology)