US charges two Chinese scientists with smuggling devastating crop-killing fungus
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the fungi was described a “potential agroterrorism weapon” in scientific journals.
Samples of a pathogen identified by the U.S. Department of Justice as Fusarium graminearum, a fungus it said was classified in scientific literature as a potential agroterrorism weapon, are seen in a criminal complaint by the FBI against Chinese researcher Zunyong Liu and his girlfriend Yunqing Jian(photo credit: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan/Handout via REUTERS)
