“…An array of molecular marker technologies has made substantial contributions to the discrimination of plant varieties, assessment of genetic diversity and relationship, and construction of genetic maps (L. Chen et al., 2005, 2007; P. J. Wang, Fang et al., 2022). Notably, RAPD (random‐amplified polymorphic DNA), amplified fragment length polymorphism, inter simple sequence repeat, and simple sequence repeat markers have been widely applied to tea plants (Barut et al., 2020; Fang et al., 2012; Jose et al., 2022; Sharma et al., 2022), effectively enabling the evaluation of genetic diversity of tea germplasm resources. As a third‐generation molecular marker technology, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) stands out as a biomarker of choice for its wide distribution in plant genomes (Buckler & Thornsberry, 2002; Fang et al., 2014).…”