Rebuttal to the Comment on Metabolomics for a Millenniums-Old Crop: Tea Plant (Camellia sinensis).

Metabolomics, one of the post-genomics techniques, has attracted the increasingly attention of researchers. Thus, we had published a paper titled "Metabolomics for a Millenniums-Old Crop: Tea Plant (Camellia sinensis)". In this paper, we drew a figure on the summary of papers referring to "metabolomics" or "metabonomics" in their titles, abstracts, or keywords from 2001 to 2018 searching on https://ccc.glgoo.top/scholar . However, Kang et al. believed that our analysis could be improved. We give a rebuttal to the comment of Kang et al. on Metabolomics for a Millenniums-Old Crop: Tea Plant (Camellia sinensis).