Time-series transcriptomic analysis reveals novel gene modules that control theanine biosynthesis in tea plant (Camellia sinensis)

• Haisheng Cao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haisheng Cao, Xiaolong He, Jinke Du

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Xiaolong He ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haisheng Cao, Xiaolong He, Jinke Du

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Jinke Du ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haisheng Cao, Xiaolong He, Jinke Du

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Rui Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation College of Information and Computer Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Ying Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Yong Ma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliation College of Information and Computer Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Qi Chen,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Congbing Fang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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• Chi-Tang Ho,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Food Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Shihua Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangshihua@ahau.edu.cn (SZ); xcwan@ahau.edu.cn (XW)

  Affiliation College of Life Science and Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3877-9166

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• Xiaochun Wan

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangshihua@ahau.edu.cn (SZ); xcwan@ahau.edu.cn (XW)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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