Abstract

Tea plants are subjected to multiple stresses during growth, development, and postharvest processing, which affects levels of secondary metabolites in leaves and influences tea functional properties and quality. Most studies on secondary metabolism in tea have focused on gene, protein, and metabolite levels, whereas upstream regulatory mechanisms remain unclear. In this review, we exemplify DNA methylation and histone acetylation, summarize the important regulatory effects that epigenetic modifications have on plant secondary metabolism, and discuss feasible research strategies to elucidate the underlying specific epigenetic mechanisms of secondary metabolism regulation in tea. This information will help researchers investigate the epigenetic regulation of secondary metabolism in tea, providing key epigenetic data that can be used for future tea genetic breeding.

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Title
Feasible strategies for studying the involvement of DNA methylation and histone acetylation in the stress-induced formation of quality-related metabolites in tea (Camellia sinensis)
Author
Yang, Jie 1 ; Gu Dachuan 1 ; Wu, Shuhua 2 ; Zhou, Xiaochen 2 ; Chen, Jiaming 2 ; Liao Yinyin 1 ; Zeng Lanting 1 ; Yang Ziyin 3 

 Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China (GRID:grid.458495.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 1014 7864) 
 Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China (GRID:grid.458495.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 1014 7864); University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (GRID:grid.410726.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 1797 8419) 
 Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China (GRID:grid.458495.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 1014 7864); University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (GRID:grid.410726.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 1797 8419); Center of Economic Botany, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China (GRID:grid.9227.e) (ISNI:0000000119573309) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Oxford University Press
e-ISSN
20527276
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2604656623
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.