Compartments of roots and mature leaves are key hubs in the connectivity of tea-plant mycobiomes and are influenced by environmental factors and host age.

Understanding the tripartite consortium of crop, mycobiome, and environment is necessary to advance smart farming. Owing to their life cycle of hundreds of years, tea plants are excellent models for studying these entwined relationships; however, observations on this globally important cash crop with numerous health benefits are still rudimentary. Here, the fungal taxa along the soil-tea plant continuum in tea gardens of different ages in famous high-quality tea-growing regions in China were characterized using DNA metabarcoding.

2,6-Bis(1-isopropyl-5-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)pyridine.

In the title compound, C(29)H(29)N(5), the central pyridine ring and the two pyrazole rings are approximately coplanar, the dihedral angles between the pyridine and pyrazole rings being 3.94 (12) and 14.84 (12)°.