Tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) O,Kuntze), native to tropical and subtropical regions in China, belongs to Family Theaceae. It is a small evergreen tree up to 16 m tall, usually pruned back to shrubs in cultivation for its leaves. Tea seed is a sideline product in tea cultivation. The tea seed production per year is about 450 million kg in China, based on 1.2 million ha of tea gardens (not including Taiwan Province) with 375 kg seed per ha. My dissertation research was focused on tea seed biochemis...