On the left, a healthy wheat head stands in contrast to the one on the right, which is inoculated with Fusarium graminearum and shows severe symptoms of Fusarium head blight disease.

Fusarium graminearum can be found across the United States and the world in temperate and semitropical regions. One of the fungus’s biggest landing spots is North Dakota, the top state for wheat ...

Testing at an FBI laboratory discovered a sample containing the DNA sequence that “would allow a researcher to propagate live Fusarium graminearum,” a fungus that causes “head blight,” in ...

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 ...

What is Fusarium head blight? 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 ...

Breakouts of Fusarium graminearum infections already naturally occur in dozens of U.S. states -- basically any state that produces wheat and barley -- and has been established in the U.S. for at ...

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 ...

What Is Fusarium Graminearum, the Fungus US Authorities Say Was Smuggled in From China? NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese researchers on Tuesday with smuggling a crop ...

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 ...