Environmental Factors Variably Impact Tea Secondary Metabolites in the Context of Climate Change.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is impacting food and beverage crops around the world with implications for environmental and human well-being. While numerous studies have examined climate change effects on crop yields, relatively few studies have examined effects on crop quality (concentrations of nutrients, minerals, and secondary metabolites). This review article employs a culturally relevant beverage crop, tea (Camelia sinensis), as a lens to examine environmental effects linked to climate change on the directionality of crop quality. Our systematic review identified 86 articles as relevant to the review question. Findings provide evidence that shifts in seasonality, water stress, geography, light factors, altitude, herbivory and microbes, temperature, and soil factors that are linked to climate

SUBMITTER: Ahmed S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6702324 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature