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

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could decimate crops and impact human health into the US last summer in a wad of ...

The toxins produced by Fusarium graminearum cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in livestock and humans,” ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could decimate crops and impact human health into the US last summer in a wad ...

Fusarium graminearum is a fungal pathogen responsible for Fusarium head blight, a devastating disease affecting major cereal crops like wheat, barley, maize, and rice.

Two Chinese nationals have been charged with smuggling a dangerous agricultural pathogen into the United States. Authorities say the pathogen could be used as a biological weapon.

The Chinese attempts this year to smuggle pathogens may be only the latest incidents in a Chinese campaign to bring down ...

Fusarium graminearum is not at the top of the list of concerning pathogens, Gary Bergstrom, a professor emeritus of plant pathology, told ABC News. "Compared to some other things, I don't think ...

Fusarium graminearum causes a disease called Fusarium head blight that can wipe out cereal crops such as wheat, barley and maize and rice—it inflicts $1 billion in losses annually on U.S. wheat ...