The Fertile Crescent is a primary center of wheat domestication and diversity. Despite its importance for bread wheat breeding, few efforts have been made to fully understand the genetic structure of the Anatolian bread wheat. A lack of information regarding the genetic structure of the bread wheat from this region is evident. | Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry Research Article Turk J Agric For (2016) 40: 352-364 © TÜBİTAK doi: High levels of segregation distortion in the molecular linkage map of bread wheat representing the West Asia and North Africa region 1, 2,3 2, Faheem Shehzad BALOCH *, Ahmad ALSALEH , Enver Ersoy ANDEDEN **, 1 3 1, Rüştü HATİPOĞLU , Miloudi NACHIT , Hakan ÖZKAN *** 1 Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey 2 Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Natural and Applied Science, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey 3 International Center of Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria Received: Accepted/Published Online: Final Version: Abstract: The Fertile Crescent is a primary center of wheat domestication and diversity. Despite its importance for bread wheat breeding, few efforts have been made to fully understand the genetic structure of the Anatolian bread wheat. A lack of information regarding the genetic structure of the bread wheat from this region is evident. Therefore, this study aimed to provide new insights into the genetic structure of bread wheat from Anatolia. A genetic linkage map was constructed based on recombinant inbred lines derived from a cross between the Turkish cultivar Gerek-79 and the Moroccan cultivar Arrehane, by using DArT markers anchored with simple sequence repeat markers. This map consisted of 54 linkage groups belonging to 21 bread wheat chromosomes, spanning a total of cM. The total number of mapped markers varied from 5 to 87, depending on the chromosome. Seventy-seven DArT markers with unpublished chromosomal locations were mapped on different chromosomes, whereas 23 were mapped onto chromosomes that deviated from those detailed in the literature. This linkage map represents a key starting point towards our understanding of the genome structure of Anatolian .
