Scientists may have cracked the code on one of agriculture's most devastating fungal diseases, potentially saving billions of dollars and protecting food supplies worldwide. Agricultural Research ...

The noxious fungus is known to cause "head blight," a disease that impacts barley, rice, wheat and maize and causes economic losses worth billions of dollars each year, according to a release.

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer. The ...

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 ...