1st ed. 2020 Edition
by Tapan Kumar Mondal (Author)
Tea is an important non-alcoholic beverage plant of the world.
Cultivation of tea is also commercially very important as it earns huge
revenue for the tea growing nations especially the developing countries
such as India. Although conventional breeding is well-established and
contributes significantly for varietal improvement of this plant and
other Camellia species with ornamental value, yet, applications of
biotechnology vis a vis genomics are essential to improve the
productivity and quality of the tea. This book brings out various
aspects of breeding, biotechnology and genomics of tea plants. It covers
i) Origin and descriptions of health benefits as well as morphological
classification as first chapter, ii) Breeding and cytogenetics that
comprise with various conventional approaches of varietal improvement of
tea along with their genetic resources, iii) Micro-propagation which
deals with in-depth study of clonal propagation, iv) Somatic
embryogenesis along with alternative techniques such as suspension
culture, cry-preservation etc, v) Molecular breeding that deals with
application of various DNA based markers such as discovery of QTL,
linkage map etc, vi) Genetic transformation and associated factors,
vii) Stress physiology complied various works done in tea along with
its wild relatives on abiotic as well as biotic stress and viii)
Functional genomics that describes the various works of molecular
cloning and characterizations, differential gene expression,
high-throughput sequencing, bioinformatics transcriptomics study that
described the application of next generation sequencing to discover
various genes that are related to various trait of tea, Non-coding RNA
which describes the discovery of various non-coding RNA in tea and
related genera. The book also discusses recent developments in
biotechnology such as metabolomics, proteomics, genome sequence and
popular clone varieties of tea crops that are developed across the
world.
In conclusion, the book collates the work on tea
plantations so far, identified the problems, analyzes the gaps on
breeding and biotechnological works of tea as well as its wild species
and discusses the future scopes as conclusion. The book aims to cover
all latest information till june, 2020 . It will be useful resource for
post-graduate, doctoral as well post-doctoral students working on tea as
well as other woody plants. This will also be useful for the
scientists working in the areas of life sciences, genomics,
biotechnology and molecular biology.
