Project description:Senescence is initiated immediately in harvested tea leaves, and leads to physiological and biochemical changes, and could affects the final tea products. In the present work, we investigated the relationship between hormones and critical components in harvested tea leaves before withering, changes in hormones including abscisic acid (ABA), salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA), and critical components like catechins, theanine, and caffeine were analyzed. Significant changes in these substances were identified and ABA correlated with catechin in harvested tea leaves before withering. RNA-seq transcriptome analysis revealed dramatic differences between tea samples at 1 h and 2 h compared with those at 0 h. The patterns of these three critical components correlated with the expression profiles of differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Weighted correlation network analysis of co-expressed genes revealed that genes in the mediumpurple2 module correlated with ABA and catechins. The results of this study suggest that harvested tea leaves before withering undergo significant hormonal changes (ABA, JA, and SA) and ABA may participate in regulating catechin biosynthesis.
Project description:To investigate the relationships between hormones and critical components in tea leaves during withering process, we detected the alterations of abscisic acid (ABA), salicylic acid (SA), and jasmonic acid (JA), catechins, theanine, and caffeine in tea leaves withered at different time points from 0 to 24 hours. The content of ABA increased from 0h to 9h and decreased thereafter and JA content continuous increased, however, SA content was no significantly changes during withering process. Except for gallocatechin (GC) and epicatechin (EC), the contents of other critical components were significantly reduced at 24h. Transcriptome analysis shown that compared with 0h, a total of 2,256, 3,654, and 1,275 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified at 9h, 15h, and 24h, respectively. The pathways of“Phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis”, and “Phenylalanine metabolism” involved in biosynthesis of catechins were enriched significantly with DEGs of all comparisons. Weighted correlation network analysis (WGCNA) of co-expression genes indicated that many of modules were correlated with a specific trait only, however, the darkolivegreen module were correlated with two traits ABA and theanine during withering process. Our study indicates that withering induced dramatic alteration of the gene transcription, hormones (ABA, JA, and SA) and important components, and ABA may regulate theanine matebolism during this process.
2022-05-04 | GSE143971 | GEO
Project description:Different degree of withering of tea
| PRJNA963005 | ENA
Project description:Tea fresh leaves withering treatment at different times
| PRJNA1217791 | ENA
Project description:Transcriptome of oolong tea (Camellia sinensis) during solar withering
| PRJNA663755 | ENA
Project description:Improving the tea withering process using ethylene or UV-C
| PRJNA705055 | ENA
Project description:RNA methylome of oolong tea (Camellia sinensis) under solar-withering
Project description:Hawk tea (Litsea coreana var. lanuginose) is a traditional Chinese tea, widely cultivated and consumed in southwestern China. It has been widely used to treat gastrosis, hepatitis, and inflammatory diseases for hundreds of years. Modern pharmacological studies demonstrate that hawk tea has protective effects against liver fibrosis, hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycemia, and inflammatory diseases . However, the molecular mechanism of hawk tea against hypercholesterolemia remains unclear. The aims of this study were to investigate the mechanisms of hawk tea extract (HTE) to lower cholesterol. Therefore, we performed genome-wide transcriptional analysis of hawk tea extracts treated HepG2 cells.
Project description:White tea is considered the least processed form of tea and is reported to have a series of potent bioactivities, such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic, and anti-cancer activities. However, the chemical composition of white tea and the dynamic changes of the metabolites during the manufacturing process are far from clear. In this study, we applied a nontargeted metabolomics approach based on ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry to comprehensively profile the characteristic metabolites of white tea. There were significant differences in the content of amino acids, catechins, dimeric catechins, flavonol and flavone glycosides, and aroma precursors in white tea compared with green and black teas that were manufactured from the same fresh tea leaves. Furthermore, the dynamic changes of the metabolites in the tea samples with various withering durations of 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, and 36 h were also profiled. To the best of our knowledge, this study offers the most comprehensive characterization of the metabolites and their changes in white tea.
Project description:Hawk tea (Litsea coreana var. lanuginose) is a traditional Chinese tea, widely cultivated and consumed in southwestern China. It has been widely used to treat gastrosis, hepatitis, and inflammatory diseases for hundreds of years. Modern pharmacological studies demonstrate that hawk tea has protective effects against liver fibrosis, hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycemia, and inflammatory diseases . However, the molecular mechanism of hawk tea against hypercholesterolemia remains unclear. The aims of this study were to investigate the mechanisms of hawk tea extract (HTE) to lower cholesterol. Therefore, we performed genome-wide transcriptional analysis of hawk tea extracts treated HepG2 cells. Hawk tea extracts (HTE) induced significant gene modulation on HepG2 cells.