“…Previous studies have attempted to identify genetically discrete groups among B. rapa crops with molecular markers (Del Carpio et al., ,b; Guo, Chen, Li, & Cowling, ; McGrath & Quiros, ; Pang et al., ; Ren, McFerson, Li, Kresovich, & Lamboy, ; Takahashi, Yokoi, & Takahata, ; Takuno, Kawahara, & Ohnishi, ; Tanhuanpää, Erkkilä, Tenhola‐Roininen, Tanskanen, & Manninen, ; Zhao et al., , , ). Most analyses identify three ambiguous geographic groups present in Europe and Central Asia, South Asia and East Asia (Del Carpio et al., ,b; Guo et al., ; Pang et al., ) except a recent analysis that found no evidence for geographic structure among diverse B. rapa accessions (Tanhuanpää et al., ). In addition, previous genetic and empirical studies suggested two distinct hypotheses for the origin of Chinese cabbage: domesticated directly from pak choi (Song, Osborn, & Williams, ; Takuno et al., ; Zhao et al., ) or via genetic admixture of turnip and pak choi (Li, ; Ren et al., ).…”