Camellia sinensis var. sinensis cultivar: Yingshuang

To take a further step towards understanding plant responses to complex environmental conditions, we examined the global transcriptome profiles of tea leaves under cold and drought stress in single, and double combination using RNA-Seq technology. Furthermore, the confounding effect of cold and drought stress on tea quality and leaf senescence was also investigated. This permitted us to shed a new light on the crucial relationship between crop quality, plant longevity and stress tolerance.