Recent progress and perspectives on physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying cold tolerance of tea plants.

ABSTRACT: Tea is one of the most consumed and widely planted beverage plant worldwide, which contains many important economic, healthy, and cultural values. Low temperature inflicts serious damage to tea yields and quality. To cope with cold stress, tea plants have evolved a cascade of physiological and molecular mechanisms to rescue the metabolic disorders in plant cells caused by the cold stress; this includes physiological, biochemical changes and molecular regulation of genes and associated pathways. Understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying how tea plants perceive and respond to cold stress is of great significance to breed new varieties with improved quality and stress resistance. In this review, we summarized the putative cold signal sensors and molecular regulation

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9971632 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature