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Smuggling case spotlights Fusarium disease risks – Two Chinese nationals were caught trying to smuggle a Fusarium pathogen into the U.S. One of the individuals, a University of Michigan researcher, is now in federal custody. The pathogen causes Fusarium head blight, a disease impacting wheat and barley. NDSU Plant Pathologist Andrew Friskop said the fungus is not new. “Fusa...