ArticleFrontiers in plant science2021
Metabolic Profiling and Gene Expression Analyses of Purple-Leaf Formation in Tea Cultivars (
Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Metabolome technology reveals the material basis for the formation of characteristic flavors in four types of purple teas.Food chemistry: X · 2026Article
- Optimizing chlorophyll content prediction in tea leaves via spectral transformations and deep learning.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Discovery of natural scaffolds as HER2 inhibitors for breast cancer: virtual screening, molecular dynamics, and biological characterization with selectivity profiling.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Integrative Analysis of Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Profiles Uncovers the Mechanism of Color Variation in the Tea Plant Callus.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association analysis of BSA-seq, BSR-seq, and RNA-seq reveals key genes involved in purple leaf formation in a tea population (Horticulture research · 2024Article
- Integration of non-targeted/targeted metabolomics and electronic sensor technology reveals the chemical and sensor variation in 12 representative yellow teas.Food chemistry: X · 2024Article
- Multi-Omics Research Accelerates the Clarification of the Formation Mechanism and the Influence of Leaf Color Variation in Tea (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Article
- Integrated Analysis of Metabolome and Transcriptome Revealed Different Regulatory Networks of Metabolic Flux in Tea Plants [International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- The Chemical Composition and Transcriptome Analysis Reveal the Mechanism of Color Formation in Tea (International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Metabolic and Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Etiolated Mechanism in Huangyu Tea (International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Integrative Analysis of Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Reveals Molecular Mechanisms of Anthocyanin Metabolism in the Zikui Tea Plant (International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Pan-transcriptome assembly combined with multiple association analysis provides new insights into the regulatory network of specialized metabolites in the tea plantHorticulture research · 2022Article
- Identification, Molecular Characteristic, and Expression Analysis of PIFs Related to Chlorophyll Metabolism in Tea Plant (International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Metabolomics and health: from nutritional crops and plant-based pharmaceuticals to profiling of human biofluids.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Purple-leaf tea cultivars are known for their specific chemical composition that greatly influences tea bioactivity and plant resistance. Some studies have tried to reveal the purple-leaf formation mechanism of tea by comparing the purple new leaves and green older leaves in the same purple-leaf tea cultivar. It has been reported that almost all structural genes involved in anthocyanin/flavonoid biosynthesis were down-regulated in purple-leaf tea cultivars when the purple new leaves become green older leaves. However, anthocyanin/flavonoid biosynthesis is also affected by the growth period of tea leaves, gradually decreasing as new tea leaves become old tea leaves. This leads to uncertainty as to whether the purple-leaf formation is attributed to the high expression of structural genes in anthocyanin/flavonoid biosynthesis. To better understand the mechanisms underlying purple-leaf formation, we analyzed the biosynthesis of three pigments (chlorophylls, carotenoids, and anthocyanins/flavonoids) by integrated metabolic and gene expression analyses in four purple-leaf tea cultivars including
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.