Biying Zhu

TL;DR: RNA sequencing, albinism phenotype and ultrastructural observations provided a valuable understanding of the albino mechanism in tea plants, and DEG expression patterns in Chl biosynthesis or degradation, carotenoid biosynthesisor degradation, chloroplast development, and biosynthesis were influenced in theAlbino leaves.

TL;DR: A degradation pathway of caffeine to theobromine is discovered on the basis of the results of stable isotope-labeled tracer experiments, which could assist researchers in understanding the caffeine-related mechanisms in Camellia plants containing low, normal, and high caffeine content.

TL;DR: It is found that the relative levels of theanine and caffeine decreased significantly, and that many of the genes in these metabolic pathways were also down-regulated, and in contrast, the levels of flavonoids apparently increased, and the expression of related genes in the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway were mostly up-regulated.

TL;DR: A novel caffeine catabolic pathway was proposed based on the caffeine stable isotopic tracer experiments and its structures were elucidated by a combination of extensive spectroscopic techniques, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, and experimental and calculated electronic circular dichroism.

TL;DR: In this article, the three-dimensional structure of CsJMT was predicted, and protein purification was investigated, and site-directed deletions revealed that N-10, S-22, and Q-25 residues in the beginning amino acids played a key functional role in enzyme activity.