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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
69
Citations
26519
World Ranking
7248
National Ranking
134

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Edward E. Farmer is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with an emphasis on Plant Science and related subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Plant Science
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science

The core topics covered in their work are:

  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated on multiple occasions with Edward E. Farmer include:

  • Stéphanie Stolz
  • Gaétan Glauser
  • Yong-Qiang Gao
  • Jean-Luc Wolfender
  • Qian Wu

The scientist has published in several notable venues, including:

  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • UNC Libraries

Some recent papers authored by Edward E. Farmer are:

  • Wound- and mechanostimulated electrical signals control hormone responses, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Interdependence of a mechanosensitive anion channel and glutamate receptors in distal wound signaling, 2021, Science Advances
  • Ricca's factors as mobile proteinaceous effectors of electrical signaling, 2023, Cell
  • Jasmonate Precursor Biosynthetic Enzymes LOX3 and LOX4 Control Wound-Response Growth Restriction, 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • ACA pumps maintain leaf excitability during herbivore onslaught, 2022, Current Biology

Best Publications

  • Interplant communication: airborne methyl jasmonate induces synthesis of proteinase inhibitors in plant leaves.

    Edward E. Farmer;Clarence A. Ryan

  • Differential Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Insect Feeding in Arabidopsis

    Philippe Reymond;Hans Weber;Martine Damond;Edward E. Farmer

  • Octadecanoid Precursors of Jasmonic Acid Activate the Synthesis of Wound-Inducible Proteinase Inhibitors.

    Edward E. Farmer;Clarence A. Ryan

  • Jasmonate and salicylate as global signals for defense gene expression

    Philippe Reymond;Edward E. Farmer

  • Control of jasmonate biosynthesis and senescence by miR319 targets.

    Carla Schommer;Javier F Palatnik;Pooja Aggarwal;Aurore Chételat

  • Auxin response factors ARF6 and ARF8 promote jasmonic acid production and flower maturation

    Punita Nagpal;Christine M. Ellis;Hans Weber;Sara E. Ploense

  • A Downstream Mediator in the Growth Repression Limb of the Jasmonate Pathway

    Yuanxin Yan;Stéphanie Stolz;Aurore Chételat;Philippe Reymond

  • Plant defense in the absence of jasmonic acid: the role of cyclopentenones.

    Annick Stintzi;Hans Weber;Philippe Reymond;John Browse

  • Two Classes of Plant Antibiotics: Phytoalexins versus "Phytoanticipins"

    Hans D. VanEtten;John W. Mansfield;John A. Bailey;Edward E. Farmer

  • GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR-LIKE genes mediate leaf-to-leaf wound signalling

    Seyed A. R. Mousavi;Adeline Chauvin;François Pascaud;Stephan Kellenberger

  • ROS-Mediated Lipid Peroxidation and RES-Activated Signaling

    Edward E. Farmer;Martin J. Mueller

  • Jasmonates and related oxylipins in plant responses to pathogenesis and herbivory

    Edward E Farmer;Emmanuelle Alméras;Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

  • A conserved transcript pattern in response to a specialist and a generalist herbivore

    Philippe Reymond;Natacha Bodenhausen;Remco M.P. Van Poecke;Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

  • Regulation of Expression of Proteinase Inhibitor Genes by Methyl Jasmonate and Jasmonic Acid

    Edward E. Farmer;Russell R. Johnson;Clarence A. Ryan

  • Oligosaccharide Signals in Plants: A Current Assessment

    Clarence A. Ryan;Edward E. Farmer

  • Surface-to-air signals.

    Edward E. Farmer

  • Remorin, a Solanaceae Protein Resident in Membrane Rafts and Plasmodesmata, Impairs Potato virus X Movement

    Sylvain Raffaele;Emmanuelle Bayer;David Lafarge;Stéphanie Cluzet

  • Reactive electrophile species

    Edward E Farmer;Céline Davoine

  • Dinor-oxo-phytodienoic acid: a new hexadecanoid signal in the jasmonate family.

    Hans Weber;Brady A. Vick;Edward E. Farmer

  • Versatile Gene-Specific Sequence Tags for Arabidopsis Functional Genomics: Transcript Profiling and Reverse Genetics Applications

    Pierre Hilson;Joke Allemeersch;Thomas Altmann;Sébastien Aubourg

Frequent Co-Authors

Clarence A. Ryan
Clarence A. Ryan Washington State University
Philippe Reymond
Philippe Reymond University of Lausanne
Jean-Luc Wolfender
Jean-Luc Wolfender University of Geneva
Gaétan Glauser
Gaétan Glauser University of Neuchâtel
Gregory Pearce
Gregory Pearce Washington State University
Serge Rudaz
Serge Rudaz University of Geneva
Rainer Hedrich
Rainer Hedrich University of Würzburg
Alain Goossens
Alain Goossens Ghent University
Thomas Altmann
Thomas Altmann Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Joakim Lundeberg
Joakim Lundeberg Royal Institute of Technology

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