Haplotype-resolved genome assembly provides insights into evolutionary history of the tea plant Camellia sinensis

X Zhang, S Chen, L Shi, D Gong, S Zhang, Q Zhao… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Tea is an important global beverage crop and is largely clonally propagated. Despite
previous studies on the species, its genetic and evolutionary history deserves further …

Population sequencing enhances understanding of tea plant evolution

X Wang, H Feng, Y Chang, C Ma, L Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tea is an economically important plant characterized by a large genome, high
heterozygosity, and high species diversity. In this study, we assemble a 3.26-Gb high-quality …

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 …

Genome assembly of wild tea tree DASZ reveals pedigree and selection history of tea varieties

W Zhang, Y Zhang, H Qiu, Y Guo, H Wan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Wild teas are valuable genetic resources for studying domestication and breeding. Here we
report the assembly of a high-quality chromosome-scale reference genome for an ancient …

Draft genome sequence of Camellia sinensis var. sinensis provides insights into the evolution of the tea genome and tea quality

C Wei, H Yang, S Wang, J Zhao, C Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Tea, one of the world's most important beverage crops, provides numerous secondary
metabolites that account for its rich taste and health benefits. Here we present a high-quality …

The tea tree genome provides insights into tea flavor and independent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis

EH Xia, HB Zhang, J Sheng, K Li, QJ Zhang, C Kim… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Tea is the world's oldest and most popular caffeine-containing beverage with immense
economic, medicinal, and cultural importance. Here, we present the first high-quality …

Genetic Divergence between Camellia sinensis and Its Wild Relatives Revealed via Genome-Wide SNPs from RAD Sequencing

H Yang, CL Wei, HW Liu, JL Wu, ZG Li, L Zhang… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Tea is one of the most popular beverages across the world and is made exclusively from
cultivars of Camellia sinensis. Many wild relatives of the genus Camellia that are closely …

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 …

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 …

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 …