Acknowledgements
This work was funded by the Guizhou Modern Agricultural Industrial Technology System-Tea (GZCYCYJSTX-02), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 32472794), the Guizhou Provincial Research Institutions Innovation Capacity Building Project (Qiankehefuqi [2019]4006 and Qiankehefuqi [2024]003-1), the Science and Technology Program of Guizhou Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (nynctcyzb 20230901), and the Germplasm Resources Program of Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Qiannongkezhongzhiziyuan [2023]03). We thank the High-Performance Computing Platform of Northwest A&F University and the Hefei advanced computing center for providing the computing resources for the bioinformatic analyses in this paper.
Author contributions
D.Q., Z.C., and P.W. conceived and designed the research. D.Q., X.M., C.Y., and Y.G. collected the samples. D.Q. and W.L. performed the genome assembly, experiments, and data analysis. S.L., H.L., J.C., W.F., J.Y., and Y.G. conducted part of the data analysis. D.Q. and W.L. wrote the manuscript. W.Y., W.Z., T.J., Y.Y., P.W., and Z.C. revised the manuscript.
Data availability
The data that support the findings of this study are publicly available in the National Genomics Data Center (
https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/) under project number PRJCA028918.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare no competing interests.