Tea is among the world’s most widely consumed non-alcoholic beverages and possesses enormous economic,health,and cultural values.It is produced from the cured leaves of tea plants,which are important evergreen crops ...Tea is among the world’s most widely consumed non-alcoholic beverages and possesses enormous economic,health,and cultural values.It is produced from the cured leaves of tea plants,which are important evergreen crops globally cultivated in over 50 countries.Along with recent innovations and advances in biotechnologies,great progress in tea plant genomics and genetics has been achieved,which has facilitated our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of tea quality and the evolution of the tea plant genome.In this review,we briefly summarize the achievements of the past two decades,which primarily include diverse genome and transcriptome sequencing projects,gene discovery and regulation studies,investigation of the epigenetics and noncoding RNAs,origin and domestication,phylogenetics and germplasm utilization of tea plant as well as newly developed tools/platforms.We also present perspectives and possible challenges for future functional genomic studies that will contribute to the acceleration of breeding programs in tea plants.展开更多
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31800180)the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(1908085MC75)+5 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFD1000601)the Science and Technology Project of Anhui Province(13Z03012)the Special Innovative Province Construction in Anhui Province(15czs08032)the Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University(IRT1101)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2017M621992)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Anhui Province,China(No.2017B189).
文摘Tea is among the world’s most widely consumed non-alcoholic beverages and possesses enormous economic,health,and cultural values.It is produced from the cured leaves of tea plants,which are important evergreen crops globally cultivated in over 50 countries.Along with recent innovations and advances in biotechnologies,great progress in tea plant genomics and genetics has been achieved,which has facilitated our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of tea quality and the evolution of the tea plant genome.In this review,we briefly summarize the achievements of the past two decades,which primarily include diverse genome and transcriptome sequencing projects,gene discovery and regulation studies,investigation of the epigenetics and noncoding RNAs,origin and domestication,phylogenetics and germplasm utilization of tea plant as well as newly developed tools/platforms.We also present perspectives and possible challenges for future functional genomic studies that will contribute to the acceleration of breeding programs in tea plants.
