"The knowledge that we gain and the importance of international relationships in science is critical. And COVID proved that." ...

Caitilyn Allen is a plant pathologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The WSWS recently ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said U.S. agriculture is "under threat from criminals, from political adversaries, and from hostile regimes." ...

Senior Trump administration officials announced a plan Tuesday to protect U.S. farmland from Chinese ownership and other ...

Fusarium graminearum, also called head blight or scab, is so dangerous because it loves warm, wet conditions and spreads easily through spores carried by wind or rain.

She's accused of helping her boyfriend, another Chinese scientist, try to work with a pathogen known as Fusarium graminearum, which can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice.

Fusarium graminearum is already prevalent in the U.S. — particularly in the east and Upper Midwest — and scientists have been studying it for decades.

The FBI has expressed particular concern about the Fusarium graminearum case, with the agency’s director highlighting the fungus’s potential to cause significant agricultural damage and health ...

Fusarium graminearum's toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock if consumed.

The Department of Justice describes Fusarium graminearum as a harmful fungus causing "head blight" in wheat, barley, maize and rice crops, resulting in annual global economic losses worth billions.

Fusarium graminearum causes a disease called Fusarium head blight that can wipe out cereal crops such as wheat, barley and maize and rice.