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Beverage Crops Breeding: For Wine, Tea, Juices, Cocoa and Coffee
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Beverage Crops Breeding: For Wine, Tea, Juices, Cocoa and Coffee

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1447

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Peng Yan

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Guest Editor
Key Laboratory of Tea Quality and Safety Control, Ministry of Agriculture, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310008, China
Interests: environmental impact assessment for tea production
Dr. Jianqiang Ma

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Guest Editor
Key Laboratory of Tea Quality and Safety Control, Ministry of Agriculture, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310008, China
Interests: germplasm resources of tea

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Beverage crops (Wine, Tea, Juices, Cocoa and Coffee) are among the most important agricultural commodities of great economic value to the world. However, the future of beverage crops is threatened by increasing damage caused by plant pathogens, insect pests and various abiotic stresses such as cold, heat, dry conditions, etc. These challenges call for new varieties with improved horticultural traits, organoleptic properties, environment adaptability, high resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, high nutrients uptake and utilize ability.

Given the ongoing interest in beverage crops breeding, this Special Issue aims to collect original research as well as review articles exploring different aspects of beverage crops breeding for genetic resources improvement, stress biology, plant metabolism and quality improvement, climate change mitigation, and other related aspects that can advance the understanding of beverage crops breeding. The key topics include, but not limited to, new findings or technical advances in areas of:

  1. The innovation and utilization of new methods and technologies in beverage crops breeding;
  2. The utilize of genetic resources for yield or quality improvement;
  3. The genetic regularities and regulatory mechanisms of beverage crops agronomic, quality, and resistance traits;
  4. The physiological and ecological response of crop varieties to severe abiotic/biotic stresses;
  5. The research on improving crop nutrients utilization efficiency.

We also welcome scientific research in agronomic aspects dealing with beverage crops cultivation.

Dr. Peng Yan
Dr. Jianqiang Ma
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • beverage crops
  • breeding
  • genetic resources
  • abiotic/biotic stresses
  • metabolism
  • quality

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The Effects of Soybean–Tea Intercropping on the Photosynthesis Activity of Tea Seedlings Based on Canopy Spectral, Transcriptome and Metabolome Analyses
by Xiaojiang Li, Yang Xu, Yilin Mao, Shuangshuang Wang, Litao Sun, Jiazhi Shen, Xiuxiu Xu, Yu Wang and Zhaotang Ding
Agronomy 2024, 14(4), 850; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14040850 - 18 Apr 2024
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Intercropping soybean in tea plantations is a sustainable cultivation system that can improve the growing environment of tea plants compared to monoculture tea. However, the effects of this system on the photosynthesis activity of tea seedlings have yet to be reported. Therefore, we [...] Read more.
Intercropping soybean in tea plantations is a sustainable cultivation system that can improve the growing environment of tea plants compared to monoculture tea. However, the effects of this system on the photosynthesis activity of tea seedlings have yet to be reported. Therefore, we used tea cultivar ‘Zhongcha108’ as experimental materials to investigate the effects of intercropping soybean on the canopy spectral parameters and photosynthesis activity of tea seedlings. Canopy spectral reflectance data showed that soybean–tea intercropping (STS) improved the reflectance of 720, 750 and 840 nm bands in tea seedlings’ canopy. The vegetation indexes (VIs) value related to photosynthetic pigments in STS was obviously higher than monoculture tea (T). In addition, the Fv/Fm and SPAD value in STS were also clearly higher. Transcriptome analysis data indicated that STS induced the expression of light-harvesting complex (LHC) genes, photosystem subunit (Psbs and Psas) genes and dark reaction biological process genes (FBP1, RPE, Calvin cycle protein CP12-1 and transketolase). These results indicate that STS enhanced the photosynthesis activity. The metabolome analysis showed that STS promoted the accumulation of carbohydrate metabolites, which further provided evidence for the enhancement of photosynthesis in the leaves of tea seedlings. This study enhanced our understanding of how intercropping soybeans in a young tea plantation improves the photosynthesis activity to promote tea seedlings’ growth and development. Full article
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Widely Targeted Metabolomics Analysis Reveals the Effect of Cultivation Altitude on Tea Metabolites
by Xiaomiao Tian, Si Chen, Qiusheng Zhong, Junyu Wang, Jiedan Chen, Liang Chen, Doogyung Moon and Jianqiang Ma
Agronomy 2024, 14(4), 812; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14040812 - 13 Apr 2024
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Cultivation altitude is a comprehensive environmental factor that significantly affects tea quality. To gain a deeper understanding of the effect of cultivation altitude on tea metabolites, a widely targeted metabolomic method based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) was used to analyze [...] Read more.
Cultivation altitude is a comprehensive environmental factor that significantly affects tea quality. To gain a deeper understanding of the effect of cultivation altitude on tea metabolites, a widely targeted metabolomic method based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) was used to analyze tea samples derived from three altitudes (86 m, 256 m, and 880 m) of two cultivars, ‘Mingke 1’ (MK) and ‘Fuyun 6’ (FY). The results showed that distinct groups of tea samples from different altitudes and cultivars were observed based on PCA. A total of 64 and 56 altitude-related differential metabolites were identified in MK and FY, respectively. Among them, 16 compounds were consistent in both cultivars and were clustered in the metabolic pathways for flavonoid (11 compounds), amino acid (3), and fatty acid (2). The content of all flavonoids and one amino acid (L-aspartic acid) gradually decreased with increasing altitude; on the contrary, the others showed an opposite trend. Furthermore, we identified 57 differential metabolites between two cultivars. Two specific compounds (8-C-hexosyl chrysoeriol O-hexoside and pelargonidin 3-O-β-D-glucoside) were exclusively found in MK, while one compound (4-hydroxybenzoic acid) was present only in FY. These findings offer insight into the metabolic responses of tea plants to different altitudes, providing further understanding on the influence of the environment on tea plants. Full article
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