Table 1. Number of mapped markers, length of the genetic map and linkage disequilibrium decay modeled with the Hill and Weir (1988) model for a r² = 0.2 for the two groups dent and flint for each chromosome and for the whole genome.

	Dent			Flint
Chromosome	Markers	Length (cM)	LD decay (cM)	Markers	Length (cM)	LD decay (cM)
1	3287	184.5	0.96	2892	237.2	0.76
2	2402	137.9	2.51	2264	182.7	0.65
3	2480	151.0	1.99	2410	156.4	0.45
4	2528	134.6	1.47	2379	165.5	0.65
5	2405	136.6	0.45	2322	180.6	0.35
6	1695	119.9	1.47	1544	134.9	0.65
7	1820	128.9	1.37	1709	149.7	0.76
8	1992	125.6	1.47	1756	139.7	0.45
9	1699	118.5	0.96	1610	133.5	0.76
10	1570	105.8	1.89	1520	106.1	0.76
Genome	21878	1343.3	1.2	20406	1586.3	0.65