Plant molecular biology
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.
Recent Publications
- 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 - Mimicry in plants
Pannell, John R.; Farmer, Edward E.
CURRENT BIOLOGY, 26 (17): R784-R785 SEP 12 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.005 2016 - Membranes as Structural Antioxidants RECYCLING OF MALONDIALDEHYDE TO ITS SOURCE IN OXIDATION-SENSITIVE CHLOROPLAST FATTY ACIDS
Schmid-Siegert, Emanuel; Stepushenko, Olga; Glauser, Gaetan; et al.
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 291 (25): 13005-13013 10.1074/jbc.M116.729921 JUN 17 2016 - Acylated monogalactosyl diacylglycerol: prevalence in the plant kingdom and identification of an enzyme catalyzing galactolipid head group acylation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Nilsson, Anders K.; Johansson, Oskar N.; Fahlberg, Per; et al.
PLANT JOURNAL, 84 (6): 1152-1166 10.1111/tpj.13072 DEC 2015

Prof. Dr. Edward Farmer
University of Lausanne
Department of Plant Molecular Biology
1015 Lausanne
Tel: +41 (0)21 692 42 28
Publications
Research topics
- Plant defense
- Systemic signalling
- Jasmonates
- Lipid oxidation
Interdisciplinary
- SystemsX.ch (physics)
- University of Geneva (metabolomics)
- University of Lausanne (electrophysiology)