The Tea Plant Genome

Dr. Liang Chen is a world-renowned professor in the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (TRICAAS) located at Hangzhou, China. He has extensive research experience in tea germplasm, genetics, breeding and genomics, etc. Liang received PhD on Tea Science from Zhejiang University, China and had postdoctoral research from Cornell University, USA. He visited Ehime University in Japan, University of Florence in Italy and Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands as senior visiting professor, respectively. Dr. Liang Chen has been appointed three times as Honorary Scientist and Advisor of the Rural Development Administration of the Republic of Korea. He has been the curator of the world’s largest collection of tea genetic resources, National Tea Germplasm Repository at Hangzhou for 20 years and bred 3 dozens of national released and Plant Variety Protection covered tea cultivars for the tea industry.

Dr. Jie-Dan Chen is an associate professor on tea genomics, genetics, and databases in the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (TRICAAS) located at Hangzhou, China. He has constructed a comprehensive database of genomic variations for molecular breeding in tea plants (TeaGVD).