An enhancer-transposable element from purple leaf tea varieties underlies the transition from evergreen to purple leaf color

Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, West 130 Changjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui 230036, China.
• ² Tea Research Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences/National Centre for Tea Improvement, Hunan Branch/Hunan Tea Variety and Seedling Engineering Technology Research Center, Changsha, China.
• ³ State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, West 130 Changjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui 230036, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ⁴ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ⁵ State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, West 130 Changjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui 230036, China. Electronic address: [email protected].