Tea is one of the most important non-alcoholic beverage drinks worldwide and gaining
further popularity as an important 'health drink'. It is served as morning drink for 2/3rd of …

Key message This article presents a comprehensive review on the success and limitations
of biotechnological approaches aimed at genetic improvement of tea with a purpose to …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

Tea plants have a long cultivation history in the world, and the beverage (tea) made from its
leaves is well known in the world. Due to the characteristics of self-incompatibility, long-term …

Tea, prepared from the leaves of Camellia species, has one of the highest contents of
flavonoids among common food and beverage products. Tea consumption has moved …

Background Despite great advances in genomic technology observed in several crop
species, the availability of molecular tools such as microsatellite markers has been limited in …

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 …

Tea plant [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] is an important beverage crop in the world. In
recent years many clonal tea cultivars have been released, and they play major roles in …

Characterization of genetic diversity in germplasm collections requires an efficient set of
molecular markers. We assessed the efficiency of 36 new SCoT markers, 10 new ISSR …

The self-incompatibility of tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) was studied with the
methods of aniline blue fluorescence assay and paraffin sections. The characteristics of …