Jessica W. Wright, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Lionel N. Di Santo, Alayna Mead, Jessica W. Wright, Jill A. Hamilton. 2025. Genetic basis of reproductive isolation in Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana Parry): Insights from hybridization and adaptation
• Michelle C. Agne, Robert A. Slesak, Laura Gonzalez Mantecon, Jessica W. Wright, Scott E. Kolpak, Erin Baumgart, Andrew D. Bower, Robyn Darbyshire, Claire Ellwanger, Vicky J. Erickson, Arnaldo R. Ferreria, Christopher Looney, Beth Roskilly, Joseph W. Sherlock. 2025. Informing reforestation with the Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES)
• Emily V Moran, Rainbow DeSilva, Courtney A. Canning, Jessica W. Wright. 2024. Testing source elevation versus genotype as predictors of sugar pine performance in a post‐fire restoration planting
• David Neale, Aleksey Zimin, Amy Meltzer, Akriti Bhattarai, Maurice Amee, Laura Figueroa Corona, Brian Allen, Daniela Puiu, Jessica W. Wright, Amanda De La Torre, Patrick McGuire, Winston Timp, Steven Salzberg, Jill Wegrzyn, P. Ingvarsson. 2024. A genome sequence for the threatened whitebark pine
• Lionel N. Di Santo, Sean Hoban, Thomas L. Parchman, Jessica W. Wright, Jill A. Hamilton. 2022. Reduced representation sequencing to understand the evolutionary history of Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana parry) with implications for rare species conservation
• Jessica W. Wright, Melissa B. Jenkins, Anna W. Schoettle, Karl A. Anderson, Joseph Fortier, Linh Hoang, Tony Incashola, Robert E. Keane, Jodie Krakowski, Dawn M. LaFleur, Sabine Mellmann-Brown, Elliott D. Meyer, ShiNaasha Pete, Katherine Renwick, Robert A. Sissons. 2022. Restoring a forest keystone species: A plan for the restoration of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) in the Crown of the Continent ecosystem
• Christopher Looney, Jessica W. Wright, Clay Davis, Ryan Davy, Joseph Stewart, Jianwei Zhang. 2022. Postfire reforestation in northern Sierra Nevada forests: Testing silvicultural and genetic approaches in a changing climate
• Jessica W. Wright, Kristian A. Stevens, Paul D. Hodgskiss, Charles H. Langley. 2022. SNPs in a Large Genomic Scaffold Are Strongly Associated with Cr1 ^R , Major Gene for Resistance to White Pine Blister Rust in Range-Wide Samples of Sugar Pine ( Pinus lambertiana )
• M.A. Stern, L.E. Flint, A.L. Flint, R.M. Boynton, J.A.E. Stewart, Jessica W. Wright, J.H. Thorne. 2022. Selecting the optimal fine-scale historical climate data for assessing current and future hydrological conditions
• Lionel Di Santo, Monica Polgar, Storm Nies, Paul Hodgkiss, Courtney A. Canning, Jessica W. Wright, Jill A. Hamilton. 2021. Seed morphological traits as a tool to quantify variation maintained in ex situ collections: a case study in Pinus torreyana
• Luke Browne, Brandon MacDonald, Sorel Fitz-Gibbon, Jessica W. Wright, Victoria L. Sork. 2021. Genome-wide variation in DNA methylation predicts variation in leaf traits in an ecosystem-foundational oak species
• Takao Kasuga, Katherine Hayden, Catherine A. Eyre, Peter J. P. Croucher, Shannon P. Schechter, Jessica W. Wright, Matteo Garbelotto. 2021. Innate resistance and phosphite treatment affect both the pathogen’s and host’s transcriptomes in the tanoak-Phytophthora ramorum pathosystem
• Paul F. Gugger, Sorel T. Fitz‐Gibbon, Ana Albarrán‐Lara, Jessica W. Wright, Victoria L. Sork. 2021. Landscape genomics of Quercus lobata reveals genes involved in local climate adaptation at multiple spatial scales
• Takao Kasuga, Matteo Garbelotto, Catherine A. Eyre, Peter J.P. Croucher, Shannon P. Schechter, Katherine Hayden, Jessica W. Wright. 2020. Dual transcriptome analysis reveals insights into innate and phosphite-induced resistance of tanoak to Phytophthora ramorum
• Jessica W. Wright. 2020. Ecological disturbance in the context of a changing climate: Implications for land management in Northeastern California [Chapter 6.1]
• Derek J. N. Young, Thomas D. Blush, Michael Landram, Jessica W. Wright, Andrew M. Latimer, Hugh D. Safford. 2020. Assisted gene flow in the context of large‐scale forest management in California, USA
• Alayna Mead, Juan Peñaloza Ramirez, Megan K. Bartlett, Jessica W. Wright, Lawren Sack, Victoria L. Sork. 2019. Seedling response to water stress in valley oak (Quercus lobata) is shaped by different gene networks across populations
• Luke Browne, Jessica W. Wright, Sorel Fitz-Gibbon, Paul F. Gugger, Victoria L. Sork. 2019. Adaptational lag to temperature in valley oak (Quercus lobata) can be mitigated by genome-informed assisted gene flow
• Alejandra Martínez-Berdeja, Jill A. Hamilton, Aurore Bontemps, Johanna Schmitt, Jessica W. Wright. 2019. Evidence for population differentiation among Jeffrey and Ponderosa pines in survival, growth and phenology
• A. Bontemps, Jessica W. Wright, R. Sniezko, D. Savin, J. Schmitt. 2018. Using historical provenance test data to understand tree responses to a changing climate in sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana)
• Ethan A. G. Baker, Jill L. Wegrzyn, Uzay U. Sezen, Taylor Falk, Patricia E. Maloney, Detlev R. Vogler, Annette Delfino-Mix, Camille Jensen, Jeffry Mitton, Jessica W. Wright, Brian Knaus, Hardeep Rai, Richard Cronn, Daniel Gonzalez-Ibeas, Hans A. Vasquez-Gross, Randi A. Famula, Jun-Jun Liu, Lara M. Kueppers, David B. Neale. 2018. Comparative transcriptomics among four white pine species
• Paul F. Gugger, Christina Liang, Victoria L. Sork, Paul D. Hodgskiss, Jessica W. Wright. 2017. Applying landscape genomic tools to forest management and restoration of Hawaiian koa (Acacia koa) in a changing environment
• Jessica W. Wright, Victoria L. Sork. 2017. Early results from a newly-established provenance test in Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) show significant population differentiation
• Nick Dudley, Tyler Jones, Robert James, Richard Sniezko, Jessica W. Wright, Christina Liang, Paul F. Gugger, Phil Cannon. 2017. Applied genetic conservation of Hawaiian Acacia koa: an eco-regional approach
• Jill A. Hamilton, Raphaël Royauté, Jessica W. Wright, Paul D. Hodgskiss, F. Thomas Ledig. 2017. Genetic conservation and management of the California endemic, Torrey pine ( Pinus torreyana Parry): Implications of genetic rescue in a genetically depauperate species
• Catherine A. Eyre, Katherine Hayden, Peter Croucher, Shannon P. Schechter, Jessica W. Wright, Matteo Garbelotto. 2017. Transcriptome analysis of tanoak reveals divergent mechanisms of innate and phosphite-induced resistance to Phytophthora ramorum
• Paul F. Gugger, Juan Manuel Peñaloza-Ramírez, Jessica W. Wright, Victoria L. Sork. 2016. Whole-transcriptome response to water stress in a California endemic oak, Quercus lobata
• Annette Delfino-Mix, Jessica W. Wright, Paul F. Gugger, Christina Liang, Victoria L. Sork. 2015. Establishing a range-wide provenance test in valley oak (Quercus lobata Née) at two California sites
• Ana L. Albarrán-Lara, Jessica W. Wright, Paul F. Gugger, Annie Mix, Juan Manuel Peñaloza-Ramírez, Victoria L. Sork. 2015. Phenotypic variation in California populations of valley oak (Quercus lobata Née) sampled along elevational gradients
• Jessica W. Wright, Kas Dumroese, Amy Symstad, Theresa Pitts-Singer, Jim Cane, Gary Krupnick, Peggy Olwell, Byron Love, Elizabeth Sellers, John Englert, Troy Wood. 2015. Native plant development and deployment [Section VII]
• Katherine J. Hayden, Matteo Garbelotto, Brian Knaus, Richard Cronn, Hardeep Rai, Jessica W. Wright. 2014. Dual RNA-seq of the plant pathogen phytophthora ramorum and its tanoak host
• Jessica W. Wright. 2014. Genetics of forest trees
• Jessica W. Wright, Richard S. Dodd. 2013. Could tanoak mortality affect insect biodiversity? Evidence for insect pollination in tanoaks
• Philip M. McDonald, Jianwei Zhang, Randy S. Senock, Jessica W. Wright. 2013. Morphology, physiology, genetics, enigmas, and status of an extremely rare tree: Mutant tanoak
• Richard S Dodd, Alejandro Nettel, Jessica W. Wright, Zara Afzal-Rafii. 2013. Genetic structure of Notholithocarpus densiflorus(Fagaceae) from the species to the local scale: A review of our knowledge for conservation and replanting
• Katherine Hayden, Matteo Garbelotto, Richard Dodd, Jessica W. Wright. 2013. Scaling up from greenhouse resistance to fitness in the field for a host of an emerging forest disease
• Hardeep S. Rai, Karen E. Mock, Bryce A. Richardson, Richard Cronn, Katherine Hayden, Jessica W. Wright, Brian Knaus, Paul G. Wolf. 2013. Transcriptome characterization and detection of gene expression differences in aspen (Populus tremuloides)
• Katherine Hayden, Richard S. Dodd, Catherine Eyre, Matteo Garbelotto, Jessica W. Wright. 2013. Scaling up from greenhouse to field resistance in tanoaks
• Katherine Hayden, Matteo Garbelotto, Hardeep Fai, Brian Knaus, Richard Cronn, Jessica W. Wright. 2012. Gene expression in the tanoak-Phytophthora ramorum interaction
• Katherine Hayden, Jessica W. Wright, Richard S. Dodd, Matteo Garbelotto. 2012. Developing a disease resistance research program for tanoaks
• Leonie Moyle, Levine Mia, Stanton Maureen, Jessica W. Wright. 2012. Hybrid Sterility over Tens of Meters Between Ecotypes Adapted to Serpentine and Non-Serpentine Soils
• Robert P. Adams, Jessica W. Wright. 2012. Alkanes and terpenes in wood and leaves of Pinus jeffreyi and P. sabiniana
• Jessica W. Wright, Eric von Wettberg. 2009. Serpentinomics-an emerging new field of study
• J.A. Lau, A McCall, K Davies, J McKay, Jessica W. Wright. 2008. Herbivores and edaphic factors constrain the realized niche of a native plant

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  Silvics of North America

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/silvics-north-america
• Dashboard
  

  Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES) Dashboard

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/dataandtools/experimental-network-assisted-migration-and-establishment-silviculture-0

• Project
  

  Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/enames
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Addressing barriers to assisted population migration during reforestation in the Western United States

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/bil-assisted-population-migration
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Western Center for Native Plant Conservation and Restoration Science

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/centers/wcnp
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Other Publications

• General
  

  Evaluating the effects of a superabsorbent polymer on drought stress in two conifer species

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/evaluating-effects-superabsorbent-polymer-drought-stress-two-conifer-species

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Management and Planning Tools

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-management-and-planning-tools
• Webinars

  SCIENCEx Genetics: Shifting Perspectives

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/sciencex-genetics-shifting-perspectives
• Webinars

  PNW SciCast Webinar: Science guides forest reforestation under rapidly changing conditions: The Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/multimedia/webinars/pnw-scicast-webinar-science-guides-forest-reforestation-under

• Rutgers University, Ph.D., 2000
• Amherst College, B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 1994