Research budgets cut amid food crisis, wheat worry

(AP) -- Dr. Yue Jin, a kind-faced man in a blue lab coat, is the nation's bulwark against a devastating new plant disease. He's the only federal scientist whose main mission is protecting the $17 billion U.S. wheat crop from annihilation. His budget's being cut - in part because money has been drained off by Congress' pet projects.

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