RESEARCH
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Jun 24, 2026
Advanced Science Publishes the Latest Progress of Professor Xia Enhua's Team on the Coordinated Regulation of Tea Quality and Cold Tolerance
Recently, the internationally renowned journal Advanced Science published online a research paper from Professor Xia Enhua's team at the National Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, entitled “Natural Variation of COLD AND CATECHINS REGULATOR 1 Coordinately Fine-Tunes Cold Tolerance and Tea Quality in Tea Plants”. The study systematically ...
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Mar 24, 2026
The Laboratory's Professor Song Chuankui Team Reveals the “Accelerator–Brake” Mechanism by Which Low Temperature Precisely Regulates Tea Aroma
The team of Professor Song Chuankui at the laboratory published online in Plant Physiology a research paper entitled “Precise control of volatile glucosylation in tea plants by CBF4, WRKY4, and an atypical bHLH transcription factor”, revealing for the first time the molecular mechanism by which tea plants precisely regulate the glycosylation of the important aroma compound nerolidol under low-temperature ...
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Dec 8, 2025
Nature Communications | The Laboratory's Professor Wei Chaoling Team Reveals How Structural Variation Drives the Domestication of Flavour and Disease Resistance, Based on Tea Plant Pangenome Research
Recently, the team of Professor Wei Chaoling at the laboratory published online in Nature Communications a research paper entitled “Pangenome analyses of tea plants reveal structural variations driving gene expression alterations and agronomic trait diversification”. By constructing a pangenome of 22 representative tea plant accessions and their wild relatives, the study systematically resolved the ...
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Dec 4, 2025
Plant Physiology Publishes the Laboratory's Wei Chaoling Team's Discovery of a New Mechanism by Which Exogenous cis-3-Hexenyl Acetate Activates Jasmonate Signalling to Enhance Tea Plant Resistance to Ectropis obliqua
Recently, the team of Professor Wei Chaoling at the National Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, published online in Plant Physiology a research paper entitled “CsNAC2 and CsMYB306 orchestrate a jasmonate signaling cascade contributing to tea plant resistance to Ectropis obliqua”. The study revealed that cis-3-hexenyl acetate (...
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Sep 8, 2025
Plant Biotechnology Journal | Professor Song Chuankui's Team Discovers the Molecular Mechanism by Which Cold Stress-Induced Volatiles Such as (Z)-3-Hexenol Enhance Tea Plant Cold Tolerance by Activating Ca2+ Signalling
Recently, the team of Professor Song Chuankui at the National Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, together with Researcher Ye Meng of the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, published in the classic botany journal Plant Biotechnology Journal a research paper entitled “Cold stress-induced (Z)-3-...
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Sep 8, 2025
Plant Physiology | The Laboratory's Professors Xia Tao and Gao Liping Reveal a New Mechanism by Which the Long Non-Coding RNA Cslnc170 Enhances Tea Plant Resistance to Anthracnose via Activating the CsLOX4-Mediated Jasmonate Pathway
Recently, the team of Professor Xia Tao at the National Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, published in the internationally renowned journal Plant Physiology a research paper entitled “Analysis of lncRNA-mRNA pairs induced by Colletotrichum camelliae reveals Cslnc170 as a regulator of CsLOX4 in tea plants”. It clarifies for the ...
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Sep 3, 2025
Plant Physiology | AAU's Song Chuankui / Jing Tingting Team Reveals a New Mechanism by Which the Calcium-Decoding Module CAMTA3–WRKY70–LOX3 Mediates the Volatile DMNT to Induce Jasmonate and Regulate Tea Plant Insect Resistance
Recently, the team of Professor Song Chuankui at the National Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, published in the internationally renowned journal Plant Physiology a research paper entitled “A calcium-decoding module translates volatile DMNT into jasmonic acid-mediated herbivore resistance in Camellia sinensis”. It reveals for ...
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Jun 16, 2025
Plant Physiology Publishes the Findings of the Laboratory's Zhang Zhaoliang and Wan Xiaochun Teams on the Regulatory Mechanism of Theanine Distribution Between Stem and Leaf in Tea Plants
Recently, the team of Professors Zhang Zhaoliang and Wan Xiaochun published in the internationally renowned botany journal Plant Physiology a research paper entitled “CATIONIC AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER1 modulates amino acid distribution between stem and leaf in new shoots of tea plants”. The study revealed the molecular regulatory mechanism of theanine distribution between stem and leaf in tea plant ...
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Jun 16, 2025
Plant, Cell & Environment | AAU's Wei Chaoling / Liu Shengrui Team Reveals the Molecular Mechanism by Which the CsMYB72–CsPR10-9 Module Regulates Tea Plant Resistance to Anthracnose
Recently, the team of Professor Wei Chaoling at the National Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, published in the internationally renowned journal Plant, Cell & Environment a research paper entitled “A Positive Regulator CsPR10-9 Confers Resistance to Anthracnose (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides) Is Negatively Regulated by CsMYB72 ...
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May 29, 2025
Plant, Cell & Environment | AAU's Song Chuankui / Jing Tingting Team Reveals a New Mechanism by Which β-Elemene Synergizes with Jasmonate in Tea Plant Aphid Resistance
Recently, the team of Professor Song Chuankui at the National Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, published in the internationally renowned journal Plant, Cell & Environment a research paper entitled “Tea aphid-induced β-Elemene biosynthesis by CsELE enhances JA-dependent herbivore resistance in tea plants”. The work clarified ...