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ArticleInternational journal of biometeorology2021

The future of high-quality Ceylon tea seems bleak in the face of climate change.

Sadeeka Layomi Jayasinghe, Lalit Kumar, Ewon Kaliyadasa

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Article in International journal of biometeorology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sadeeka Layomi JayasingheSchool of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia. ljayasi2@myune.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9840-8316
Lalit KumarSchool of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia.
Ewon KaliyadasaFaculty of Animal Science and Export Agriculture, Passara Road, Badulla, 90000, Sri Lanka.

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Understanding the interactive effects and relationships between biochemical elements of tea leaves and the related factors, particularly climatic, cultivar, and geographic, is key for high-quality Ceylon tea production. The objectives of this study were to (1) investigate the effects of season × cultivar × agro-ecological regions (AERs) on the four tested biochemicals in fresh tea leaves, total polyphenol content (TPC), free sugar, protein, and theanine; (2) determine the relationships between, and develop a model to estimate, the biochemicals and their related factors; and (3) project the potential concentrations and distributions of four tested biochemicals in tea leaves with respect to the current and future climate. This study primarily uses inferential statistics via the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), cross-validation using R software, and the inverse distance weighting (IDW) approach in ArcGIS. The results demonstrate that the season, cultivar (Ceylon tea cultivars of TRI 2025 and TRI 4053), and AER and their interactions on biochemicals have significant effects (p < 0.05). The models derived in the regression analysis demonstrate the strong relationships between the independent variables and the biochemicals, with multiple correlation coefficients (R) around 0.8 and coefficient of determination (R

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Camellia sinensisClimate ChangePlant LeavesSri LankaTeaTeaBiochemicalsClimate changeConcentrationsCultivarSeasonsTea quality

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