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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fusarium graminearum was found at a University of Michigan lab after two Chinese nationals allegedly smuggled it into the US, possibly to pose a food security threat. Images of the harmful fungus ...