Jim McKenna

Treesearch Publications

• Anna O. Conrad, Aziz Ebrahimi, James C. Warren, Karl Fetter, Carolyn C Pike, Caleb Kell, Jim McKenna, Martin Williams, Mojtaba Zamani Faradonbeh, Douglass F. Jacobs. 2026. Susceptibility to butternut canker disease in field trials is influenced by disease level and hybridization
• Rachael A. Sitz, Emily K. Luna, Jorge Ibarra Caballero, Ned A. Tisserat, Whitney S. Cranshaw, Jim McKenna, Joshua Stolz, Jane E. Stewart. 2021. Eastern Black Walnut (Juglans nigra L.) Originating From Native Range Varies in Their Response to Inoculation With Geosmithia morbida
• Jim McKenna, Paul Berrang, Aziz Ebrahimi, Scott Rogers, Stuart Seaborne, James Jacobs. 2020. Butternut Conservation and Breeding to Mitigate Butternut Canker Disease
• Jim McKenna, Racheal A. Sitz, Ned Tisserat, Don Carlson, Paul Bloese. 2020. Screening Range-Wide Black Walnut Seed Families for Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD) Resistance and Measuring the Regional Adaptability of Resistant Seed Sources
• Dave Carey, Marjorie Allmaras, Paul Bloese, David Burke, Paul Berrang, Lindsay Dalton, Roger Gettig, Tom Hall, Andrea Hille, Jeff D. Kochenderfer, Scott Lint, Mary E. Mason, Jim McKenna, Scott Rogers, Jill Rose, Carol Young, Keith Konen, Jennifer Koch. 2020. A Collaborative Multi-Agency Program to Develop Resistance to Beech Bark Disease in American Beech (Fagus Grandifolia)
• Andrea N. Brennan, Jim McKenna, Sean M. Hoban, Douglass F. Jacobs. 2020. Hybrid Breeding for Restoration of Threatened Forest Trees: Evidence for Incorporating Disease Tolerance in Juglans cinerea
• Aziz Ebrahimi, Shaneka Lawson, Graham S. Frank, Mark V. V. Coggeshall, Keith Woeste, Jim McKenna. 2018. Pollen flow and paternity in an isolated and non-isolated black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) timber seed orchard
• Andrea R. Hefty, Brian H. Aukema, Robert C. Venette, Mark V. V. Coggeshall, Jim McKenna, Steve J. Seybold. 2018. Reproduction and potential range expansion of walnut twig beetle across the Juglandaceae
• Jim McKenna, Wayne A. Geyer, Keith Woeste, Daniel L. Cassens. 2015. Propagating figured wood in black walnut
• Jim McKenna, Keith Woeste, Michael E. Ostry. 2012. Breeding resistance to butternut canker disease
• Jim McKenna, Oriana Rueda-Krauss, Brian Beheler. 2011. A highly efficient machine planting system for forestry research plantations—the Wright-MSU method
• Jim McKenna, Michael E. Ostry, Keith Woeste. 2011. Screening butternut and butternut hybrids for resistance to butternut canker
• Lenny Farlee, Keith Woeste, Michael E. Ostry, Jim McKenna, Sally Weeks. 2010. Identification of butternuts and butternut hybrids
• Lenny Farlee, Keith Woeste, Michael E. Ostry, Jim McKenna, Sally Weeks. 2010. Conservation and management of butternut trees
• Keith Woeste, Lenny Farlee, Michael E. Ostry, Jim McKenna, Sally Weeks. 2009. A forest manager's guide to butternut
• Amy Ross-Davis, Zhonglian Huang, Jim McKenna, Michael E. Ostry, Keith Woeste. 2008. Morphological and molecular methods to identify butternut (Juglans cinerea) and butternut hybrids: relevance to butternut conservation
• Keith Woeste, Jim McKenna. 2004. Walnut genetic improvement at the start of a new century
• Jim McKenna, Keith Woeste. 2004. Planting and care of fine hardwood seedlings: Diagnosing and controlling wildlife damage in hardwood plantations.
• Jim McKenna, Keith Woeste. 2004. Planting and care of fine hardwood seedlings: Fertilizing, pruning, and thinning
• Jim McKenna, Lynn Epstein. 2003. Susceptibility of Juglans Species and Interspecific Hybrids to Agrobacterium tumefaciens
• Kourosh Vahdati, Jim McKenna, Abhaya M. Dandekar, Charles A. Leslie, Sandie L. Uratsu, Wesley P. Hackett, Paola Negri, Gale H. McGranahan. 2002. Rooting and Other Characteristics of a Transgenic Walnut Hybrid (Juglans hindsii x J. regia) Rootstock Expressing rolABC

• University of California, M.S., Plant Biology - Ecology Specialization, 1997
• University of California, B.S., International Agricultural Development Plant Science Specialization, 1993