The biological pathogen federal authorities accuse two Chinese nationals of smuggling into the U.S. was not likely an act of ...

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

Ag experts say crop fungus smuggled into US by Chinese researchers would be ineffective as ag terrorism weapon.

It has been reported in the past week that the pair of Chinese researchers, working at the University of Michigan, tried to ...

Fusarium graminearum — the fungus federal prosecutors say a University of Michigan scholar and her boyfriend attempted to ...

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

The noxious fungus is known to cause "head blight," a disease that impacts barley, rice, wheat and maize and causes economic ...

U.S. authorities said Monday that they had arrested a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological material into the country, the second such case in days.

The Department of Defense on Tuesday announced the arrest of two Chinese researchers alleged to have smuggled a toxic fungus ...

US expert warns of possible agroterrorism threat from China, citing a toxic fungus smuggled into the US. Agricultural experts ...

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 ...