Camellia sinensis var. sinensis Raw sequence reads

The perennial tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is a world-wide beverage crop. Its annual production is significantly affected by the length of winter dormancy (WD) in the temper regions. By intensively phenotype-based selection, we bred a new short WD tea cultivar, named 'Emei Wenchun' (EW), which dormant period length is only half of the regular cultivar. To understand the genetic basis of EW's short WD trait, we performed full-length transcript sequencing using the PacBio single-molecule real-time (SMRT) platform and analyzed the transcript expression levels by Illumina RNA-seq.