Huijuan Zhao

TL;DR: A high-quality reference genome of the tea plant consisting of 15 pseudo-chromosomes, 70.38% of which are LTR retrotransposons is presented, showing the evidence that LTR-RTs play critical roles in the genome size expansion and transcriptional diversification of tea plant genes through preferential gene insertions in promoter regions and introns.

TL;DR: The constructed knowledgebase of tea plant will serve as a central gateway for global tea community to better understand the tea plant biology that largely benefits the whole tea industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a single-base-resolution DNA methylation map of the Camellia sinensis under chilling stress was generated, and the authors found that the genome is highly methylated in all three sequence contexts, including CG, CHG and CHH, which is correlated with its repeat content and genome size.

TL;DR: The data framework used to generate, annotate and validate the tea genome assembly is described and re-predicted the protein-coding genes and annotated their putative functions using more comprehensive omics datasets with improved training models.

TL;DR: It is shown strong evidence that Camellia plants shared a recent whole genome duplication event, followed by large expansions of transcription factor families associated with stress resistance and secondary metabolism, and the expression patterns of hundreds of genes associated with tea quality were thoroughly examined.