A University of Michigan scholar, Yunqing Jian, and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, face charges for allegedly attempting to smuggle Fusarium graminearum, a potentially dangerous agricultural pathogen ...

Two Chinese nationals are accused of smuggling a "potential agroterrorism weapon" via a noxious fungus into the U.S., according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Two Chinese researchers have been charged with smuggling a fungus known to be a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into the U.S. with the alleged intent of studying it ...

In 2023, the affidavit states that the University of Michigan offered her a position as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction Laboratory in Ann Arbor.

The fungus, Fusarium graminearum, is considered capable of "agroterrorism" and was allegedly smuggled into the country by two Chinese nationals studying at the University of Michigan. Hall, R ...

Golden oyster mushrooms have started to invade parts of southern Michigan, and could soon spread into northern Michigan, as ...

He later admitted to smuggling the fungus to research it at a laboratory at the University of Michigan, where Jian worked and he previously worked.

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors accused two Chinese scientists of smuggling into the United States a "dangerous" fungus that causes a disease in crops so that one of them could research the pathogen at ...

He later admitted to smuggling the fungus to research it at a laboratory at the University of Michigan, where Jian worked and he previously worked.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Two Chinese researchers have been charged with smuggling a fungus known to be a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into the U.S. with the alleged intent of studying it ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Two Chinese researchers have been charged with smuggling a fungus known to be a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into the U.S. with the alleged intent of studying it ...