Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Breeding Strategies in Tea Plants
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotic and Abiotic Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 378
Special Issue Editors
Interests: germplasm resources; flavonoids biosynthesis; transcriptional regulation
Interests: germplasm resources; resistance breeding; transcriptional regulation; anthracnose
Interests: germplasm resources; linkage analysis; quantitative trait loci; GWAS
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Dear Colleagues,
The tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is a globally important economic crop, known for the tea processed from its leaves. While cultivated worldwide, its yield per unit area and quality vary substantially across regions due to differences in cultivars, growing environments, and cultivation practices. These variations underscore the critical need for the breeding of excellent cultivars and the refinement of cultivation/management techniques to enhance both productivity and tea quality.
This Special Issue titled “Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Breeding Strategies in Tea Plants” aims to highlight innovative studies, approaches, and techniques that advance our understanding of tea plant genetics, physiology, and biochemistry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: genetic breeding and germplasm innovation in tea plants, functional genomics and gene discovery, molecular mechanisms underlying environmental stress responses and tolerance, secondary metabolite biosynthesis mechanisms, and efficient tea plant cultivation techniques.
Dr. Chunfang Li
Prof. Dr. Yuchuan Wang
Dr. Jianqiang Ma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tea plant
- cultivation
- breeding
- secondary metabolism
- abiotic stresses
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