Tea and tea drinking: China's outstanding contributions to the mankind

SY Pan, Q Nie, HC Tai, XL Song, YF Tong, LJF Zhang… - Chinese Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Tea trees originated in southwest China 60 million or 70 million years ago.
Written records show that Chinese ancestors had begun drinking tea over 3000 years ago …

Polyphenols in plants: structure, biosynthesis, abiotic stress regulation, and practical applications

NV Zagoskina, MY Zubova, TL Nechaeva… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Phenolic compounds or polyphenols are among the most common compounds of secondary
metabolism in plants. Their biosynthesis is characteristic of all plant cells and is carried out …

The reference genome of tea plant and resequencing of 81 diverse accessions provide insights into its genome evolution and adaptation

E Xia, W Tong, Y Hou, Y An, L Chen, Q Wu, Y Liu, J Yu… - Molecular plant, 2020 - cell.com
Tea plant is an important economic crop, which is used to produce the world's oldest and
most widely consumed tea beverages. Here, we present a high-quality reference genome …

Gene mining and genomics-assisted breeding empowered by the pangenome of tea plant Camellia sinensis

S Chen, P Wang, W Kong, K Chai, S Zhang, J Yu… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
Tea is one of the world's oldest crops and is cultivated to produce beverages with various
flavours. Despite advances in sequencing technologies, the genetic mechanisms underlying …

Genetic basis of high aroma and stress tolerance in the oolong tea cultivar genome

P Wang, J Yu, S Jin, S Chen, C Yue… - Horticulture …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tea plants (Camellia sinensis) are commercially cultivated in> 60 countries, and their fresh
leaves are processed into tea, which is the most widely consumed beverage in the world …

Comparative transcriptomic analysis unveils the deep phylogeny and secondary metabolite evolution of 116 Camellia plants

Q Wu, W Tong, H Zhao, R Ge, R Li, J Huang… - The Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Camellia plants include more than 200 species of great diversity and immense economic,
ornamental, and cultural values. We sequenced the transcriptomes of 116 Camellia plants …

TPIA2: an updated tea plant information archive for Camellia genomics

Q Gao, W Tong, F Li, Y Wang, Q Wu… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The genus Camellia consists of about 200 species, which include many economically
important species widely used for making tea, ornamental flowers and edible oil. Here, we …

Exploring plant metabolic genomics: chemical diversity, metabolic complexity in the biosynthesis and transport of specialized metabolites with the tea plant as a model

J Zhao, P Li, T Xia, X Wan - Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The diversity and complexity of secondary metabolites in tea plants contribute substantially
to the popularity of tea, by determining tea flavors and their numerous health benefits. The …

Tea tree pest detection algorithm based on improved Yolov7-Tiny

Z Yang, H Feng, Y Ruan, X Weng - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Timely and accurate identification of tea tree pests is critical for effective tea tree pest control.
We collected image data sets of eight common tea tree pests to accurately represent the true …

CsbZIP1-CsMYB12 mediates the production of bitter-tasting flavonols in tea plants (Camellia sinensis) through a coordinated activator–repressor network

X Zhao, X Zeng, N Lin, S Yu, AR Fernie… - Horticulture …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Under high light conditions or UV radiation, tea plant leaves produce more flavonols, which
contribute to the bitter taste of tea; however, neither the flavonol biosynthesis pathways nor …