The hot water was employed to extract theanine from various tissues of tea leaves, described by the previous method [33 (link)]. To investigate the involvement of CsGGT4 in the production and degradation of theanine, samples were collected and examined utilizing HPLC–MS/MS and GC/MS techniques, following established protocols in a previous study [19 (link)]. The instrument parameters and methods employed were in accordance with Dong et al. [61 (link)].
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