Caitilyn Allen is a plant pathologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The WSWS recently interviewed her on the frame-up of two Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan charged by federal prosecutors with smuggling plant pathogens into the US and linked by the Trump administration to alleged agroterrorism.

The investigation was sparked by a review of UM’s foreign reports that revealed that incomplete, inaccurate and untimely disclosures may have been submitted by the university, in possible violation of its foreign source funding statutory disclosure obligations, the department said in a letter sent Tuesday to UM Interim President Domenico Grasso.