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

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer ...

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 ...

The charges against two Chinese, one of them researcher, for illegally smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a dangerous crop-killing fungus, into the United States has brought renewed focus on the ...

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 ...