Global Tea Breeding : Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives

__Global Tea Breeding: Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives__ provides a global review on biodiversity and biotechnology issues in tea breeding and selection. The contributions are written by experts from China, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Turkey, Indonesia, Japan, Bangladesh, Korea, Nigeria, and etc., which countries amount to 90% of the world tea production. This book focuses on the germplasm, breeding and selection of tea cultivars for the production of black, green and Oolong teas from the tea plant, __Camellia sinensis__ (L.) O. Kuntze. It can benefit the tea breeders in the global tea industry, as well as the breeders of other woody cash crops like coffee and other sub-tropical fruit trees. Liang Chen is a Professor and Associate Director at National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (TRICAAS), Hangzhou, China. Zeno Apostolides is a Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Zong-Mao Chen is the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a Professor at the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Delicious and Healthy Tea: An Overview....Pages 1-11 Tea Germplasm and Breeding in China....Pages 13-68 Breeding of the Tea Plant ( Camellia sinensis ) in India....Pages 69-124 Tea Plant ( Camellia sinensis ) Breeding in Sri Lanka....Pages 125-176 Tea Improvement in Kenya....Pages 177-226 Japanese Tea Breeding History and the Future Perspective....Pages 227-239 Breeding of Tea Plant ( Camellia sinensis ) in Vietnam....Pages 241-262 Tea Plant ( Camellia sinensis ) Breeding in Korea....Pages 263-288 Tea Germplasm and Improvement in Bangladesh....Pages 289-297 The Development of High Yielding Tea Clones to Increase Indonesian Tea Production....Pages 299-308 The Tea Industry and Improvements in Turkey....Pages 309-321 Tea Improvement in Nigeria....Pages 323-342 Genetics and Chemistry of the Resistance of Tea Plant to Pests....Pages 343-360 Germplasm and Breeding Research of Tea Plant Based on DNA Marker Approaches....Pages 361-376 Back Matter....Pages 377-384