Chemistry and Biological Activities of Processed Camellia sinensis Teas: A Comprehensive Review

L Zhang, CT Ho, J Zhou, JS Santos… - … Reviews in Food …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tea is a typical processed beverage from the fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis [Camellia
sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] or Camellia assamica [Camellia sinensis var. assamica (Mast.) …

Chinese oolong tea: An aromatic beverage produced under multiple stresses

L Zeng, X Zhou, X Su, Z Yang - Trends in food science & technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Tea has been a popular beverage for millennia because of its health benefits
and high-quality flavor and aroma. Oolong tea is a famous Chinese tea known for its elegant …

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

E **a, 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 …

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 …

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 …

The genome of oil-Camellia and population genomics analysis provide insights into seed oil domestication

P Lin, K Wang, Y Wang, Z Hu, C Yan, H Huang, X Ma… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background As a perennial crop, oil-Camellia possesses a long domestication history and
produces high-quality seed oil that is beneficial to human health. Camellia oleifera Abel. is a …

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 …

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 …

Tea plant information archive: a comprehensive genomics and bioinformatics platform for tea plant

EH **a, FD Li, W Tong, PH Li, Q Wu… - Plant biotechnology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tea is the world's widely consumed nonalcohol beverage with essential economic and
health benefits. Confronted with the increasing large‐scale omics‐data set particularly the …

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

P Wang, J Yu, S **, 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 …