Editorial: Secondary metabolites and metabolism in tea plants

Zhaoliang Zhang; Chuankui Song; Jian Zhao; Enhua Xia; Weiwei Wen; Lanting Zeng; Vagner A Benedito

doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1143022

Editorial: Secondary metabolites and metabolism in tea plants

Front Plant Sci. 2023 Feb 14:14:1143022. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1143022. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Zhaoliang Zhang¹, Chuankui Song¹, Jian Zhao², Enhua Xia¹, Weiwei Wen³, Lanting Zeng⁴, Vagner A Benedito⁵

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, School of Tea and Food Science and Technology, Anhui Agriculture University, Anhui, China.
² Key Laboratory of Tea Science of Ministry of Education, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (MOE), College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
⁴ South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou, China.
⁵ School of Agriculture and Food, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: Camellia sinensis; natural products; plant biochemistry; specialized metabolism of plants; tea quality.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

This work is supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32072624) and the National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFD1601101).