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Freezing tolerant tea cultivars are urgently needed. The tea cultivars with highly freezing tolerance showed resistance to freezing stress induced photoinhibition. Freezing sensitivity index (H) of 47 tea clonal cultivars was investigated after severe freezing winter in 2016. To develop instrumental methods for freezing tolerance selection, the maximum photochemical efficiency of photosystem II (PSII) (Fv/Fm) and leaf color indicator a on the Hunter color scale were determined on control group (non-frozen) and frozen group (being frozen at -15 °C for 2 h and then stood at 20 °C for 5 h) of the cultivars. When the two indicators were expressed as the ratios (R Fv/Fm and R  a  ) of frozen group to control group, linear regression of the freezing sensitivity index (H) upon the R Fv/Fm and R  a  produced significant relationship respectively, i.e., H = 60.31 - 50.09 R Fv/Fm ( p &lt; 0.01) and H = 30.03 - 10.82 R  a  ( p &lt; 0.01). Expression of gene psbA encoding D1 protein and gene psbD encoding D2 protein in PSII showed that the frezzing tolerant tea cultivars maintained a high expression level of psbA after freezing stress, which is considered to be beneficial to de novo synthesis of D1 protein and sustaining PSII activity. These findings can provide instrumental tools for assessing freezing tolerance of tea cultivars in tea breeding program.

Effect of Freezing on Photosystem II and Assessment of Freezing Tolerance of Tea Cultivar