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Using five distinct tea cultivars, researchers combined metabolomic profiling, metagenomics, and machine learning to identify eight key microbial genes associated with leaf secondary compounds, ...

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Oolong tea is a centuries-old beverage that sits between green and black tea in oxidation, offering a vast range of flavors from floral to robust. Its production blends artistry and precision, with ...

Rappaport (Shopping for Pleasure), professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, leaps onto the commodity-history bandwagon in this diverting but overstuffed history of the “civilizing force” that was ...