Two Chinese researchers are accused of trying to smuggle in the fungus, which causes Fusarium head blight that can wipe out ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could ...

Testing at an FBI laboratory discovered a sample containing the DNA sequence that “would allow a researcher to propagate live Fusarium graminearum,” a fungus that causes “head blight,” in ...

Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, making false statements and visa fraud for allegedly bringing the fungus Fusarium graminearum into the U.S. Jian, 33 ...

What Is Fusarium Graminearum, the Fungus US Authorities Say Was Smuggled in From China? NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese researchers on Tuesday with smuggling a crop ...

which is infected with Fusarium head blight, a costly fungal disease that can diminish the grain yield and quality of wheat, barley and certain other cereal crops. (Mathew Helm/U.S. Department of ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jian Yunqing, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan, for the alleged smuggling of the fungus Fusarium graminearum. Her partner ...