Journal of Tea Science Research (ISSN 1927-6494) is an open access, peer reviewed journal published online by HortHerb Publisher, which has been indexed by international database ProQuest. The journal is publishing all the latest and outstanding research articles, letters and reviews in all aspects of tea research, containing the studies on tea cultivation, breeding, plant protection, tea processing, technical and economic, tea food and health products, medical care of tea, as well as the cloning and analysis of tea genes or genomics; the analytical and functional of tea molecular genetics.

Journal of Tea Science Research (ISSN 1927-6494) is deposited in CrossRef. The Journal has been indexed by CABI and ProQuest as well.

Journal of Tea Science Research is published online by the HortHerb Publisher, an independent publishing platform in life science based British Columbia of Canada. The Hortherb Publisher applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works published in this journal. Under the terms of CCAL, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article and have granted to any third party to reuse, reprint, disseminate and unlimited download, provided the original authors and source are right cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers.

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