Liz Barbour

Personal profile

Biography

Dr Barbour is presently the CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Honey Bee Products (ww.crchoneybeeproducts.com), a federally and industry funded research program with the aim of adding value to the honey bee product industry.

Her research background is in tree crops, domesticating them for product development through tree breeding, trial assessment and asexual and sexual propagation. She has worked in industry, State Government and within the University system and in Australia has been awarded RIRDC, NHT, ARC Linkage and ACIAR funding as well as under taken consultancies.

Funding overview

Australian Research Council Linkage, Natural Heritage Trust, Rural Industry Research Development Council, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Cooperative Research Centre

Industrial relevance

Pulp and paper

Research

Tree crops, seed production, vegetative propagation, sandalwood

Keywords

Sandalwood oil production and its regulation
Plant senescence and regulation of partitioning
Tree domestication
Tree breeding program deployment for commercial product production
Seed orchard design, production and quality control systems
Seed processing, storage and treatment
Plant tissue culture
Plant nursery management

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Research Output 2009 2018

196 Citations
6 h-Index
10 Article
1 Letter

3 Citations (Scopus)

Genetic and environmental parameters show associations with essential oil composition in West Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum)

Moniodis, J., Renton, M., Jones, C. G., Barbour, E. L. & Byrne, M., 9 Jan 2018, In : Australian Journal of Botany. 66, 1, p. 48-58 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Santalum spicatum

essential oil

essential oils

oils

oil

1 Citation (Scopus)

To prune or not to prune; pruning induced decay in tropical sandalwood

Burgess, T. I., Howard, K., Steel, E. & Barbour, E. L., 15 Dec 2018, In : Forest Ecology and Management. 430, p. 204-218 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

prunes

pruning

deterioration

plant damage

fungus

5 Citations (Scopus)

Sesquiterpene Variation in West Australian Sandalwood (Santalum spicatum)

Moniodis, J., Jones, C. G., Renton, M., Plummer, J. A., Barbour, E. L., Ghisalberti, E. L. & Bohlmann, J., 6 Jun 2017, In : Molecules. 22, 6, 12 p., 940.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

26 Citations (Scopus)

Heartwood-specific transcriptome and metabolite signatures of tropical sandalwood (Santalum album) reveal the final step of (Z)-santalol fragrance biosynthesis

Celedon, J. M., Chiang, A., Yuen, M. M. S., Diaz-Chavez, M. L., Madilao, L. L., Finnegan, P. M., Barbour, E. L. & Bohlmann, J., May 2016, In : The Plant Journal. 86, 4, p. 289-299

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Santalum

Santalum album

heartwood

Transcriptome

transcriptome

14 Citations (Scopus)