TeaPGDB: Tea Plant Genome Database

Abstract

As the most widely consumed beverage in the world, tea has various nutritional, economic, and global cultural values. With the development of the third-generation sequencing technology, several genome sequences of tea plants have been published. These genomic data have pivotal information that is of benefit to tea plant breeders and biologists in advancing tea plant improvement and the final quality of tea products. We hereby present the integrative online database, Tea Plant Genome Database (TeaPGDB; http://eplant.njau.edu.cn/tea), which incorporates the published genome sequences of tea plants. The current release of TeaPGDB hosts published tea plant genome data with various online tools, including JBrowse, gene search, SSR search, BLAST. TeaPGDB also contains a download server, which provides access for the download of genome-related data and rich annotation files. TeaPGDB is committed to collecting, integrating, and annotating published tea plant genome data, providing data support for research on tea plant heredity, evolution, breeding for resistance, plant improvement, and facilitating the characterization of important traits or flavor related genes in the community. Compared with other tea plant databases, this database not only contains more complete genome data and gene annotation information, but also has a user-friendly interface for researchers in the field.