“…Similarly, a higher number of linkage groups was also reported in durum wheat. For example, 21 linkage groups were reported for JK × Ch1 (Nachit et al, 2001), 18 for MDM (Elouafi and Nachit, 2004), 23 for the K/S map (Maccaferri et al, 2008), 25 for Meridiano × Claudio, 20 for Colosseo × Lloyd (Trebbi et al, 2011), and 26 for consensus parental maps (Vaissayre et al, 2012), instead of 14 linkage groups of durum wheat. In the present study, the linkage map was constructed with 866 markers, which is higher than that used for most of the previous published maps (Suenaga et al, 2005;Semagn et al, 2006;Nalini et al, 2007).…”