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 …

GC–MS and LC-MS/MS metabolomics revealed dynamic changes of volatile and non-volatile compounds during withering process of black tea

X Fang, Y Liu, J Xiao, C Ma, Y Huang - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), headspace solid-phase microextraction-
gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC–MS) and ultra-high performance …

An ancient whole-genome duplication event and its contribution to flavor compounds in the tea plant (Camellia sinensis)

Y Wang, F Chen, Y Ma, T Zhang, P Sun… - Horticulture …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tea, coffee, and cocoa are the three most popular nonalcoholic beverages in the world and
have extremely high economic and cultural value. The genomes of four tea plant varieties …

The transcription factor CsS40 negatively regulates TCS1 expression and caffeine biosynthesis in connection to leaf senescence in Camellia sinensis

X Yao, H Chen, A Ai, F Wang, S Lian… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Caffeine is considered as one of the most important bioactive components in the popular
plant beverages tea, cacao, and coffee, but as a wide-spread plant secondary metabolite its …

Metabolite profiling and transcriptome analysis revealed the conserved transcriptional regulation mechanism of caffeine biosynthesis in tea and coffee plants

Y Zhang, J Fu, Q Zhou, F Li, Y Shen, Z Ye… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Caffeine is a characteristic bioactive compound in tea and coffee plants, which is
synthesized and accumulated extensively in leaves and seeds. However, little is known …

Two new catechins from Zijuan green tea enhance the fitness and lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans via insulin-like signaling pathways

JP Ke, JY Yu, B Gao, FL Hu, FQ Xu, G Yao, GH Bao - Food & Function, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Green tea polyphenols show positive effects on human health and longevity. However,
knowledge of the antiaging properties of green tea is limited to the major catechin …

Large-leaf yellow tea attenuates high glucose-induced vascular endothelial cell injury by up-regulating autophagy and down-regulating oxidative stress

P Wang, Y Huang, J Ren, Y Rong, L Fan, P Zhang… - Food & function, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Vascular endothelial cell injury induced by high glucose (HG) plays an important role in the
occurrence and development of diabetic vascular complications. Yellow tea has a protective …

Urate oxidase from tea microbe Colletotrichum camelliae is involved in the caffeine metabolism pathway and plays a role in fungal virulence

S He, X Qiao, S Zhang, J Xia, L Wang, S Liu - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tea is one of the most well-known, healthy beverages in the world. Tea plants produce
caffeine as a secondary metabolite. Colletotrichum camelliae is one of the most important …

Discovery of neolignan glycosides with acetylcolinesterase inhibitory activity from Huangjinya green tea guided by ultra performance liquid chromatography–tandem …

HY Wu, JP Ke, W Wang, YS Kong… - Journal of agricultural …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Global Natural Product Social feature-based networking was applied to follow the
phytochemicals, including nine flavonoid glycosides, six catechins, and three flavonols in …

Isolation, characterization and application of theophylline-degrading Aspergillus fungi

B Zhou, C Ma, T Xia, X Li, C Zheng, T Wu, X Liu - Microbial cell factories, 2020 - Springer
Background Caffeine, theobromine and theophylline are main purine alkaloid in tea.
Theophylline is the downstream metabolite and it remains at a very low level in Camellia …