Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFD1200203), Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (32494784), Zhejiang Science and Technology Major Program on Agricultural New Variety Breeding-Tea Plant (2021C02067-6), the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LZ24C160003), and the Fundamental Research Fund for Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1610212022009).
Author contributions
M.C.L. and Y.M.Z. conceived the study and designed the experiments. L.D.D., C.Y.Q., Z.C.Y., Y.Y.Y., M.P., G.Y., D.S.Q., W.J.Y., W.P.X., and H.X.R. performed the experiments and gathered samples. L.D.D., C.J.D., and M.C.L. analyzed the data and organized the figures. L.D.D and M.C.L. wrote the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
Data availability
The transcriptome data of FCC and LJ43 can be found in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under the bioproject number PRJNA1308736. The illumina sequencing data of FCC can also be found in the NCBI SRA under the bioproject number PRJNA1395793. The other relevant data can be found within the manuscript and its supplementary information. Supplementary Data is available at http://www.teaplant.top/teagvd/download.
Conflicts of interest statement
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.