China: Decipher the genome of Tieguanyin and find the switch for high yield of tea

◎Our reporter Xie Kaifei, correspondent Cao Jiayi Scientists successfully deciphered the genome of the famous Chinese tea Tieguanyin. They also re-sequenced 161 tea plant varieties and 15 closely related species of Dali tea, and discovered two functional genes that affect plant height and tea yield. Tea plant is an important beverage crop in the world, but its lagging genomics research limits the rapid selection of excellent traits using molecular biology technology. Now this dilemma is expected to be broken. The reporter learned from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University on July 25 that Professor You Minsheng of the school and Researcher Zhang Xingtan of the Shenzhen Institute of Agricultural Genomes of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and scientists from many units at home and abroad, successfully deciphered the genome of the famous Chinese tea Tieguanyin and related results. It was recently published in the top international journal Nature Genetics. "The ...