Yihua Shen

TL;DR: This paper showed that CsMYB1 is involved in the regulation of trichome formation and galloylated cis-catechins biosynthesis in tea plants, and the variations in CsmyB1 expression levels are closely correlated with trichomes index and the amount of galloylated catechins contained in tea plant populations.

TL;DR: Zhao et al. as discussed by the authors found that the MYB184 gene in KKC showed the highest TCS1 promoter activation with 4.7-fold higher NMT activity compared with other tea cultivars.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the caffeine metabolite between tea and coffee plants and found that tea leaves contained significantly higher caffeine than coffee leaves, which is perhaps due to more members of N-methyltransferase (NMT) genes as well as higher expression levels in tea plants.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors integrated target and nontarget metabolism analyses to explore the metabolic feature of developing tea plants, including terpenoid, flavonol, catechins, caffeine, and theanine.

TL;DR: In this paper , Wu et al. showed morphological changes during stomata development and genetic dissection of lineage genes that regulate stomatal formation in tea developing leaves, and found that different tea plant cultivars displayed clear variations in the stomato development rate, density and size, which are closely related to their tolerance against dehydration capabilities.