茶作为最早的饮料,其相关的可信记录可以推至公元前三世纪——商代时期。茶叶不仅在中国而且在世界范围内具有巨大的经济和文化价值。日前,我国科学家经过七年研究,终于率先在国际上破解了茶树的基因组。相对于“世界三大饮料植物”中的咖啡和可可而言,茶树基因组具有高杂合、高重复和基因组庞大等特点。由中科院昆明植物所牵头的联合科研团队通过基因组建库与 As the earliest drink of tea, the related credible record can be pushed to the third century BC - Shang Dynasty. Tea is of great economic and cultural value not only in China but also in the world. Recently, after seven years of research, our scientists finally took the lead in breaking down the genome of tea tree internationally. Relative to the “world’s three major beverage plants,” the coffee and cocoa terms, the tea tree genome with high heterozygosity, high repetition and a large genome and so on. Kunming by the Chinese Academy of Sciences plant led by a joint research team through the construction of the genome and library