A Chinese researcher was arrested for illegally smuggling Fusarium graminearum into the US, a fungus that produces produces toxins like vomitoxin, which contaminate food and can cause nausea ...

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, was ...

What Is Fusarium Graminearum, Smuggled By Chinese Woman, Boyfriend Into US The fungus has been identified in scientific research as a possible agroterrorism agent capable of causing billions of ...

This photo published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service on May 29, 2025, shows the top half of a wheat head, which is infected with Fusarium head blight, a ...

Although Jian and Liu are accused of smuggling Fusarium graminearum into the country, the fungus is already prevalent in the U.S. — particularly in the east and Upper Midwest — and scientists ...

What are the accusations? Although Jian and Liu are accused of smuggling Fusarium graminearum into the country, the fungus is already prevalent in the U.S.—particularly in the east and Upper ...

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 noxious fungus that causes “headblight,” a disease of wheat, barley, maize and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.

Two Chinese researchers have been charged with smuggling a "potential agroterrorism weapon" — fusarium graminearum — into the United States. Biological pathogens were discovered in Zunyong Liu ...

Fusarium graminearum — the fungus federal prosecutors say a University of Michigan scholar and her boyfriend attempted to smuggle into the U.S. — is a dangerous strain of a common fungus that ...