A Chinese plant scientist at the University of Michigan who drew national attention in June 2025 when she was arrested and ...

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 costly ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese researchers on Tuesday with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer — charges that come amid heightened political tensions ...

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 booked in ...

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese researchers on Tuesday with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer — charges that come amid heightened political tensions between ...