the different varietals in Africa the gene map Coffea arabica allotetraploidy resulted from recent natural hybridization between the ancestors of present‐day C. canephora (Ca genome donor) and C. eugenioides (Ea genome donor) (Lashermes et al ., 1999) and is probably the result of a single event (Lashermes et al ., 2014). Coffea arabica displays disomic inheritance with bivalent pairing of homologous chromosomes (Krug and Mendes, 1940), which is in accordance with our present observations in mapping experiments of usual disomic patterns of marker inheritance. Yu et al . (2011) provided evidence of recent C. arabica speciation no more than 0.665 million years ago , but also low divergence between the two constitutive subgenomes of C. arabica (Ca and Ea) and those of its progenitor species, demonstrating that the nuclear genomes have remained essentially unaltered since the formation of the hybrid. Using the 17 C. arabica accessions, we took advantage of the fact that...