RESEARCH
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May 12, 2025
Plant Biotechnology Journal | The Laboratory's Song Chuankui Team Reveals the Molecular Mechanism by Which Natural Variation of the Tea Glycosyltransferase UGT71A60 Achieves Bidirectional Regulation of Growth and Stress Tolerance
Recently, the team of Professor Song Chuankui at the laboratory, together with the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, published in the internationally authoritative journal Plant Biotechnology Journal the latest research entitled “Natural variation of CsUGT71A60 determines growth and cold tolerance via regulating cytokinin glycosylation in Camellia sinensis”. ...
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May 7, 2025
The Plant Cell Publishes Important Progress of the Laboratory's Zhang Zhaoliang Team on the Key Gene Module Controlling Theanine Content in Spring Tea
Recently, the team of Professor Zhang Zhaoliang published in the internationally renowned botany journal The Plant Cell a research paper entitled “The mitochondrial carrier CsTHS1 acts as a gatekeeper of theanine accumulation in late-spring new shoots of tea plants”. The study systematically revealed the molecular mechanism of theanine transport and degradation in tea plant spring new shoot cells,...
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Feb 18, 2025
Science Advances Publishes the Laboratory's Professor Song Chuankui Team's Discovery of the Mechanism by Which Tea Plants Achieve Bidirectional Communication Through Volatiles
Recently, the team of Professor Song Chuankui at the laboratory published online in Science Advances a research paper entitled “Squalene acts as feedback signaling molecule in facilitating bidirectional communication between tea plants”. The study revealed for the first time the molecular mechanism by which tea plants achieve a “two-way dialogue” by releasing a substance called squalene and “huddle ...
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Feb 12, 2025
Plant Biotechnology Journal Publishes Professors Li Penghui and Xia Enhua's Dissection of a New Regulatory Mechanism of Linalool Synthesis in Tea Plants
Recently, the team of Professor Li Penghui together with Professor Xia Enhua published online in Plant Biotechnology Journal a research paper entitled “Divergent MYB paralogs determine spatial distribution of linalool mediated by JA and DNA demethylation participating in aroma formation and cold tolerance of tea plants”. The study identified MYB transcription factors regulating linalool synthesis ...
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Jan 29, 2025
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical | Collaborative Research by the Laboratory's Professor Song Chuankui and Professor Li Ke on Intelligent Detection of Volatile Aroma Compounds in Tea Plants
Tea, one of the world's three major healthy beverages, is increasingly popular for its unique flavour, pharmacological value and cultural significance. Among its components, the volatile aroma compounds in tea have a great influence on sensory evaluation and overall quality, and these aroma compounds are closely related to tea plant growth conditions — for example, tea plants release specific volatile ...
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Jan 26, 2025
New Phytologist | The Laboratory's Professor Song Chuankui Team Develops a Glycoside-Specific Detection Method for Tea Plants and Reveals a New Mechanism of Glycine Betaine-Induced Cold Tolerance
Recently, the team of Professor Song Chuankui at the National Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, published online in the journal New Phytologist a research paper entitled “Glycoside-specific metabolomics reveals the novel mechanism of glycinebetaine-induced cold tolerance by regulating apigenin glycosylation in tea plants”. The ...
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Jan 10, 2025
The Laboratory's Professors Wan Xiaochun and Wang Yijun Report a Temperature-Dependent Covalent Interaction Between β-Lactoglobulin and EGCG
Recently, the team of Professors Wan Xiaochun and Wang Yijun at the laboratory published online in the internationally renowned journal Food Hydrocolloids (IF=11, a CAS Tier-1 TOP journal) a research paper entitled “Discovery and identification of the temperature dependent EGCG and β-lactoglobulin covalent conjugate in green tea and milk mixture”. The study discovered covalent binding between β...