Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Metabolite signatures of diverse Camellia sinensis tea populations

  • Xiaomin Yu,
  • Jiajing Xiao,
  • Si Chen,
  • Yuan Yu,
  • Jianqiang Ma,
  • Yuzhen Lin,
  • Ruizi Li,
  • Jun Lin,
  • Zhijun Fu,
  • Qiongqiong Zhou,
  • Qianlin Chao,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Zhenbiao Yang,
  • Renyi Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19441-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The molecular basis for the unique taste and aroma of tea cultivars is largely unknown, but is critical for breeding new cultivars. Here the authors use transcriptomics and metabolomics to study the relationship among phylogenetic groups and specialized metabolites from 136 tea accessions in China.