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 …

GWAS involves testing genetic variants across the genomes of many individuals of a
population to identify genotype–phenotype association. It was initially developed and has …

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 …

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 …

Long-read technologies hold the promise to obtain more complete genome assemblies and
to make them easier. Coupled with long-range technologies, they can reveal the architecture …

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 …

The tea plant (Camellia sinensis) presents an excellent system to study evolution and
diversification of the numerous classes, types and variable contents of specialized …

Tea is known for having a high catechin content, with the main component being (−)-
epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which has significant bioactivities, including potential anti …

Our agricultural systems are now in urgent need to secure food for a growing world
population. To meet this challenge, we need a better characterization of plant genetic and …

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 …