Some Citrus S-A-R Answers Could Come Within a Few Months

Gary Cooper April 2, 2008 Citrus, Florida

This is our final feature in our series of reports with Dr Jim Graham following up on the recent Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR)seminar at UF’s Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC) at Lake Alfred. In this report Graham says he recognizes that growers clearly want to know when they can expect some definative answers about these kinds of concepts and he tries to offer some answers in this regard. Report (1:30 mp3)

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