Tea is a crucial non-alcoholic beverage plant of the area. Cultivation of tea is essential because it earns profit for the tea becoming countries specially the constructing nations similar to India. even though traditional breeding is well-established and has contributed considerably for varietal development of this plant and different Camellia species with decorative price, but purposes of biotechnology are required to intrude the various concerns the place traditional breeding is specific really for woody crops comparable to tea. it's note-worthy to say that a few quantities of biotechnology works in different points of tea and its wild species have additionally been performed. within the current ebook, a cutting-edge on quite a few points of breeding and biotechnology has been complied in 8 chapters. they're: i) starting place and outlines of wellbeing and fitness merits in addition to morphological type as first bankruptcy, ii) Breeding and cytogenetics that contain with a variety of traditional ways of varietal development of tea in addition to their genetic assets, iii) Micropropagation which bargains with in-depth examine of clonal propagation, iv) Somatic embryogenesis in addition to replacement innovations reminiscent of suspension tradition, cry-preservation and so forth. v) Molecular breeding that offers with program of varied DNA-based markers, linkage map etc., vi) Genetic transformation and linked components, vii) rigidity body structure complied with a variety of works performed in tea besides its wild family members on abiotic in addition to biotic tension, and viii) sensible genomics that describe a number of the works of molecular cloning and characterizations, differential gene expression, high-throughput sequencing, bioinformatics and so on. Importantly, the writer has made specific tables in many of the chapters that come with the precis of the works specifically subject. In a nutshell, the e-book compiles the paintings already been performed, identifies the issues, analyzes the gaps on breeding and biotechnological works of tea in addition to its wild species and discusses the long run scope as end. each attempt has been made to incorporate all of the released works until eventually June 2013. The booklet should be an invaluable source for post-graduate, doctoral besides post-doctoral scholars engaged on tea in addition to different woody vegetation. this may even be beneficial for the scientists operating within the parts of existence sciences, genomics, biotechnology and molecular biology.