Application of biotechnology for genetic improvement of tea(Camellia sinensis L.)

• 발행기관: 한국차학회
• 저자명: Tapan K. Mondal
• 간행물 정보: 『한국차학회지』제9권 제3호, 25~44쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 농수해양 > 기타농수해양
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.12.30

영문 초록

Tea is one of the most important non-alcoholic beverage drinks worldwide. Although conventional breeding and propagation contributed significantly for last several decades to improve this crop. Moreover, tea is a unique horticultural crop which not only grow as monoculture but also the tender shoots and foliage harvested at periodic intervals from the very second year after planting to 100 or more years. Thus tea plant experiences several biotic and abiotic stresses through out the life. Therefore application of biotechnology become attractive to overcome the limitations of conventional breeding coupled with the demand for increasing productivity with lower cost of production. The various approaches such as microproopagation, genetic transformation and molecular biology which are applied to the Indian tea cultivar are discussed here.

키워드

Camellia sinensis DNA marker genetic transformation micropropagation tea breeding woody plant