Hi,
I've been working on QTL discovery for several years and now working on my publication.
However, I got number of feedbacks from colleagues that the term I'm using for my population isn't appropriate.
At this point, I'm confused that some of my colleagues say it's just fine and some others tell me to change the term.
Can you help me solve this confusion?
My population of interest is basically a F1 population of plants, consisted of progenies produced from only two parents.
Parents are highly heterozygous diploids, and progenies were collected from AxB as well as BxA.
I often called it a bi-parental population, but there had been feedbacks that it should be called a cross-pollinated population.
Long as I know, a cross-pollinated population is a term to call a multi-parents population rather than a population derived from only two parents but the opinion of calling it a cross-pollinated population is because when I call it a bi-parental population, there could be a misunderstanding of my study that the population is derived from two homozygous parents and thus misunderstanding could happen.
Which is more appropriate for my population, bi-parental population or cross-pollinated?
Or any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Best regards, Y.H.P
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