Betsy Jackes
- betsy.jackes@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-9767- Adjunct Professor
- Zoology & Ecology
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Biography
Adjunct Professor Betsy Jackes AM is an Australian systematic botanist, lecturer, and past Dean of Science, and past deputy head of then-School of Tropical Biology at JCU.
Her interest is principally in the family Vitaceae (native grapes), Myrsinaceae, and Australian tropical vegetation. She is presently running the JCU online subject 'Australian land plants recognition, evolution, and diversity' (BZ5650).
In 2021, Dr Jackes became the sixth-ever awardee of JCU's Doctor of Science honoris causa for her sustained contributions to discovering and cataloguing tropical flora in northern Queensland, continued work with plant systematics and the ecology of the tropical flora.
Recent publications to the community include Plants of the Burra Range (2021) and Plants of Magnetic Island (reprinted 2022). She presently assists in maintaining JCU's Discover Nature.
Teaching
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[BZ5650] Australian Land Plants: Recognition, Evolution and DiversityCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
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Jackes, Betsy (2021) Plants of the Burra Range. Townsville, QLD, Australia: [Reference Material] [DOI]
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Jackes, Betsy (2010) Plants of Magnetic Island. Townsville, QLD, Australia: [Non-Research Book]
Hooker, Nanette; Jackes, Betsy (2009) Grasses of James Cook University, Townsville Campus Part A: a pictorial key to grass genera in North Queensland. Townsville, Queensland, Australia: [Reference Material]
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Cartaxo-Pinto, Simone; Jackes, Betsy R.; Marinho, Elysiane de Barros; Gonçalves-Esteves, Vania; Mendonça, Cláudia Barbieri Ferreira (2022) 'Pollen analysis of representatives of the tribes Ampelopsideae, Cayratieae and Parthenocisseae and evolutionary history of Vitaceae genera'. Palynology, 46 (2). [DOI]
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Bowden, Bruce F.; Brophy, Joseph J.; Jackes, Betsy R. (2022) 'Review of the Leaf Essential Oils of the Genus Backhousia Sens. Lat. and a Report on the Leaf Essential Oils of B. gundarara and B. tetraptera'. Plants, 11 (9). [DOI]
Cartaxo-Pinto, Simone; Paulo, Gabriel Henrique Cardoso; Jackes, Betsy; Gonçalves-Esteves, Vania; Mendonça, Claudia Barbieri F. (2022) 'A palynological perspective on the tribe Viteae of the grape family (Vitaceae)'. Grana, 61 (1):27-44. [DOI]
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Parmar, Gaurav; Dang, Viet-Cuong; Rabarijaona, Romer Narindra; Chen, Zhi-Duan; Jackes, Betsy R.; Barrett, Russell R.; Zhang, Zhu-Zhi; Niu, Yan-Ting; Trias-Blasi, Anna; Wen, Jun; Lu, Li-Min (2021) 'Phylogeny, character evolution and taxonomic revision of Causonis, a segregate genus from Cayratia (Vitaceae)'. Taxon, 70 (6):1188-1218. [DOI]
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Jackes, Betsy R. (2019) 'Hibbertia Andrews (Dilleniaceae, Guinea Flowers) in North Queensland, Townsville area to the tip of Cape York Peninsula'. North Queensland Naturalist, 49 :84-99.
Jackes, Betsy R. (2017) 'A revision of Dolichandrone (Bignoniaceae) in Australia'. Australian Systematic Botany, 30 (1):26-37. [DOI]
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Pokharel, Suraj K.; Setzer, Mary Snow; Greenleaf, Stephanie E.; Dosoky, Noura S.; Jackes, Betsy R.; Setzer, William N. (2017) 'Bioactive dammarane triterpenoids from the bark of Drypetes acuminata from Paluma, North Queensland, Australia'. Records of Natural Products, 11 (1):1-8.
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Poinar, George; Kevan, Peter G.; Jackes, Betsy R. (2016) 'Fossil species in Boehmerieae (Urticaceae) in Dominican and Mexican amber: a new genus (Ekrixanthera) and two new species with anemophilous pollination by explosive pollen release, and possible lepidopteran herbivory'. Botany, 94 (8):599-606. [DOI]
Yonzon, Pralad; Xiankai, Lu; Wright, Patricia; Wright, Debra D.; Williams, Stephen; Wilkie, David; Whitney, Ken; Whitacre, David; West, Paige; Weber, William; Watts, David; Wang, Benjamin; Waltert, Matthias; de Castilho, Carolina Volkmer; Verea, Carlos; Venn, Linda; Rivera, Jorge Vega; van Weerd, Merlijn; Umapathy, Govindaswamy; Turkalo, Andrea; Tscharntke, Teja; Tobler, Mathias; Surbeck, Martin; Sukumar, Raman; Stoner, Kathryn E.; Stokes, Emma; Stewart, Kristine; Stanford, Craig; Sodhi, Navjot; Smith, Thomas B.; Silman, Miles R.; Siaka, Alhaji; Seidensticker, John; Schaab, Gertrud; Savini, Tommaso; Sanaiotti, Tania; Sakai, Shoko; Round, Philip; Rothman, Jessica; Roedel, Mark-Oliver; Riley, Erin; Reynolds, Vernon; Reynolds, Glen; Renton, Katherine; Reinartz, Gay; Reichard, Ulrich; Rajathurai, Subaraj; Pringle, Catherine; Prawiradilaga, Dewi; Pisciotta, Katia; Parthasarathy, N.; Ouboter, Paul; Opiang, Muse; O'Donnell, Sean; Novotny, Vojtech; Nepal, Sanjay; Nakagawa, Michiko; Nabe-Nielsen, Jacob; Thompson, Jo Myers; Montag, Luciano; McNab, Roan; McGraw, W. Scott; Martins, Marlucia; Mack, Andrew L.; Lwanga, Jeremiah; Lugo, Ariel; Losos, Elizabeth; Linsenmair, K. Eduard; Ling-Ling, Lee; Lindsell, Jeremy; Leonel, Cristiane; Lentino, Miguel; Lawton, Robert; Laval, Richard; Lattke, John; Ribeiro, Jose Lahoz da Silva; Kudavidanage, Enoka; Kone, Inza; Knott, Cheryl; Klop, Erik; King, Hen-biau; Killeen, Timothy; Kasangaki, Aventino; Kalko, Elisabeth; Justiniano, Hermes; Jones, Trevor; Jin, Chen; Jiangming, Mo; Janzen, Daniel; Janovec, John; Jackes, Betsy; Ivanauskas, Natalia; Itoh, Akira; Ickes, Kalan; Sun, I Fang; Huang, Zhongliang; Hill, Jane; Herbinger, Ilka; Hamer, Keith; Haber, William; Guthiga, Paul; Guix, Juan C.; Goodman, Steven; Goodale, Uromi; Willis, Jacalyn Giacalone; Fruth, Barbara; Feer, François; Fedigan, Linda; Ewango, Corneille; Estrada, Alejandro; Emmons, Louise; Eaton, Mitchell; Dirzo, Rodolfo; Diesmos, Arvin; Di Fiore, Anthony; da Silva, Rosa de Nazaré Paes; Beisiegel, Beatriz de Mello; Davies, Glyn; Dave, Chittaranjan; Dattaraja, H. S.; Corlett, Richard; Congdon, Robert; Clavijo, José; Clark, Connie J.; Chave, Jerome; Chellam, Ravi; Chao, Jung-Tai; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Brühl, Carsten A.; Brokaw, Nicholas; Brockelman, Warren; Blake, Stephen; Bila-Isia, Inogwabini; Bass, Margot; Banki, Olaf; Baker, Patrick; Babweteera, Fred; Babaasa, Dennis; Auzel, Philippe; Ashton, Mark; Arroyo, Luzmila; Arias-G, Juan Carlos; Wright, S. Joseph; Vasudevan, Karthikeyan; Urbina-Cardona, J. Nicolas; Timm, Robert; Thomas, Duncan; Terborgh, John; Struhsaker, Thomas; Sheil, Douglas; Schulze, Christian; Scatena, Frederick; Rovero, Francesco; Roetgers, Christiane; Robinson, Douglas; Rainey, Hugo; Quesada, Mauricio; Poulsen, John; Plumptre, Andrew; van der Ploeg, Jan; Pitman, Nigel; Pearson, Richard; Nielsen, Martin R.; Mudappa, Divya; McClearn, Deedra; Marshall, Andrew R.; Maisels, Fiona; Magnusson, William; Lovett, Jon; Logsdon, Willis; Krishnaswamy, Jagdish; Kress, W. John; Karpanty, Sarah; Hart, John; Harrison, Rhett; Harris, David; Gale, George; Foster, Mercedes; Forget, Pierre-Michel; Fashing, Peter; Farwig, Nina; Edwards, Felicity; Edwards, David; Donnelly, Maureen A.; Dinerstein, Eric; De Dijn, Bart; Danielsen, Finn; Cords, Marina; Coates, Rosamond; Chapman, Colin; Carroll, Richard; Cao, Min; Cannon, Charles H.; Bobo, Kadiri S.; Blom, Allard; Benitez-Malvido, Julieta; Ashton, Peter; Arroyo-Rodriguez, Victor; Alvarez, Patricia; Abernethy, Ka (2012) 'Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas'. Nature, 489 (7415):290-294. [DOI]
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Harrington, Mark G.; Jackes, Betsy R.; Barrett, Matthew D.; Craven, Lyn A.; Barrett, Russell L. (2012) 'Phylogenetic revision of Backhousieae (Myrtaceae): Neogene divergence, a revised circumscription of Backhousia and two new species'. Australian Systematic Botany, 25 (6):404-417. [DOI]
Jackes, Betsy (2011) 'The vine Embelia tiwiensis (Angiospermae: Myrsinaceae), a new species from the Northern Territory, Australia'. The Beagle: records of the museums and art galleries of the northern territory, 27 :23-25.
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Harris, Sarah M.; McFeeters, Hana; Ogungbe, Ifedayo; Cruz-Vera, Louis R; Setzer, William; Jackes, Betsy; McFeeters, Robert L (2011) 'Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase screening combined with molecular docking reveals the antibiotic potential of Syzygium johnsonii bark extract'. Natural Product Communications, 6 (10):1421-1424.
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Jackes, Betsy R. (2009) 'Taxonomic revision of Australian Myrsinaceae: Ardisia Sw. and Tetrardisia Mez'. Austrobaileya, 8 (1):1-23.
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Wu, Xiujun; Vogler, Bernhard; Jackes, Betsy R.; Setzer, William N. (2008) 'Terpenoids from Neolitsea dealbata'. Natural Product Communications, 3 (2):129-132.
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Bastian, Mikis; Boyero, Luz; Jackes, Betsy R.; Pearson, Richard G. (2007) 'Leaf litter diversity and shredder preferences in an Australian tropical rain-forest stream'. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 23 (2):219-229. [DOI]
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Rossetto, Maurizio; Crayn, Darren M.; Jackes, Betsy R.; Porter, Carolyn (2007) 'An updated estimate of intergeneric phylogenetic relationships in the Australian Vitaceae'. Canadian Journal of Botany, 85 (8):722-730. [DOI]
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Setzer, William N.; Rozmus, Glenn F.; Setzer, Mary C.; Schmidt, Jennifer M.; Vogler, Bernhard; Reeb, Sabine; Jackes, Betsy R.; Irvine, Anthony K. (2006) 'Bioactive principles in the bark of Pilidiostigma tropicum'. Journal of Molecular Modeling, 12 (5):703-711. [DOI]
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Jackes, Betsy R.; Rossetto, Maurizio (2006) 'A new combination in Clematicissus Planch (Vitaceae)'. Telopea, 11 (3):390-391.
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Jackes, Betsy R. (2005) 'Studies in Australian Myrsinaceae: Tapeinsperma Hook.f'. Austrobaileya, 7 (1):99-110.
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Jackes, Betsy R. (2005) 'Revision of Myrsine (Myrsinaceae) in Australia'. Australian Systematic Botany, 18 (5):399-438. [DOI]
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Worboys, S.J.; Jackes, B.R. (2005) 'Pollination processes in Idiospermum australiense (Calycanthaceae), an arborescent basal angiosperm of Australia's tropical rain forests'. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 251 (2-4):107-117. [DOI]
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Cochard, R.; Jackes, B.R. (2005) 'Seed ecology of the invasive tropical tree Parkinsonia aculeata'. Plant Ecology, 180 (1):13-31. [DOI]
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Rossetto, Maurizio; Jackes, Betsy R.; Scott, Kirsten D.; Henry, Robert J. (2002) 'Is the genus Cissus (Vitaceae) monophyletic? Evidence from plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA'. Systematic Botany, 27 (3):522-533.
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Anthony, P.A.; Holtum, J.A.M.; Jackes, B.R. (2002) 'Shade acclimation of rainforest leaves to colonization by lichens'. Functional Ecology, 16 (6):808-816. [DOI]
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Dixon, Dale J.; Jackes, B.R.; Bielig, L.M. (2001) 'Figuring out the figs: the Ficus obliqua - Ficus rubiginosa complex (Moraceae: Urostigma sect. Malvanthera)'. Australian Systematic Botany, 14 :133-154. [DOI]
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Setzer, Mary C.; Setzer, William N.; Jackes, Betsy R.; Gentry, Glenn A.; Moriarity, Debra M. (2001) 'The medicinal value of tropical rainforest plants from Paluma, North Queensland, Australia'. Pharmaceutical Biology, 39 (1):67-78. [DOI]
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Rossetto, Maurizio; Jackes, Betsy R.; Scott, Kirsten D.; Henry, Robert J. (2001) 'Intergeneric relationships in the Australian Vitaceae: new evidence from cpDNA analysis'. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 48 (3):307-314. [DOI]
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Lott, Rosemary H.; Jackes, Betsy R. (2001) 'Isozyme analysis of rain forest plants using immature seeds'. Biotropica, 33 (1):197-204. [DOI]
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Setzer, William N.; Setzer, Mary C.; Bates, Robert B.; Jackes, Betsy R. (2000) 'Biologically active triterpenoids of Syncarpia glomulifera bark extract from Paluma, North Queensland, Australia'. Planta Medica, 66 (2):176-177. [DOI]
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Setzer, William N.; Setzer, Mary C.; Peppers, R. Lynton; McFerrin, Michael B.; Meehan, Edward J.; Chen, Liqing; Bates, Robert B.; Nakkiew, Pichaya; Jackes, Betsy R. (2000) 'Triterpenoid constituents in the bark of Balanops australiana'. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 53 (9):809-812. [DOI]
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Duke, N.C.; Jackes, Betsy R. (1987) 'A systematic revision of the mangrove genus Sonneratia (Sonneratiaceae) in Australasia'. Blumea, 32 (2):277-302.
Jackes, Betsy R. (2020) 'Transfer of three species of Cayratia Juss., to Causonis Raf.(Vitaceae)' Telopea, 23 :69-71. [DOI]
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Jackes, Betsy R. (2018) 'Hibbertia ferox Jackes (Dilleniaceae), a new species from the White Mountains area of north Queensland' Austrobaileya, 10 (2) :282-285.
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Jackes, Betsy (2018) 'Sturt Desert Pea or just Sturt Pea' Native Plants Queensland, 57 :22-24.
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Jackes, Betsy (2017) 'Meet Hibiscus townsvillensis: the Townsville Hibiscus' Native Plants Queensland, 56 (1) :35-40.
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Jackes, Betsy B. (2010) 'Ardisia hylandii Jackes: a new name for Ardisia depauperata (Domin) Jackes' Austrobaileya, 8 (2) :223-223.
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Rossetto, Maurizio; Jackes, Betsy; Crayn, Darren (2006) 'Vitaceae-Molecular evolution with a focus on the Australian Radiation' In: Rossetto, Maurizio, Jackes, Betsy, and Crayn, Darren (2006) Vitaceae-Molecular evolution with a focus on the Australian Radiation. In: Sharma, A.K., and Sharma, Archana, (eds.) Plant Genome: biodiversity and evolution: Phanerogams (Angiosperm-Dicotyledons). Plant Genome, 1 (Part C). Science Publishers, pp. 269-292(Eds.). Plant Genome Biodiversity and Evolution, Vol1, part C. : Science Publishers.
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Setzer, Mary C.; Werka, Jennifer S.; Irvine, Anthony K.; Jackes, Betsy R.; Setzer, William N. (2006) 'Biological activity of rainforest plant extracts from far North Queensland, Australia' In: Setzer, Mary C., Werka, Jennifer S., Irvine, Anthony K., Jackes, Betsy R., and Setzer, William N. (2006) Biological activity of rainforest plant extracts from far North Queensland, Australia. In: Williams, Lawrence A.D., and Reese, P.B., (eds.) Biologically Active Natural Products for the 21st Century. Research Signpost, Kerala, India, pp. 21-46(Eds.). Biologically Active Natural Products for the 21st Century. Kerala, India : Research Signpost.
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