Caffeine is a widely recognized psychostimulant compound with a long history of
consumption by humans. While it has received a significant amount of attention there is still …

Tea is prepared from the young leaves, buds, stalks of the plant Camellia sinensis. The
cultivation process of tea plants and the habit of tea drinking were initiated in China from …

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 …

Using genome-wide data of 89 ancient individuals dated to 5100 to 100 years before the
present (BP) from 29 sites across the Tibetan Plateau, we found plateau-specific ancestry …

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 …

" A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable
and cognitive read.”—Nature The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From …

Although China and India are the two largest tea-producing countries, the domestication
origin and breeding history of the tea plant in these two countries remain unclear. Our …

Green tea extract (GTE) is one of the most popular beverages globally, traditionally prepared
from Camelia sinensis leaves. Therefore, it is beneficial to define the impact of GTE and its …

In the early 1980s Naomi Miller changed the field of palaeoethnobotany; her research into
whether the ancient seed eaters of southwest Asia were human or herbivore opened an …

China is one of the main global centers of origin of agriculture. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica),
common millet (Panicum miliaceum), and rice (Oryza sativa) were the first crops to be …