| 2D | Two-dimensional |
| 3D | Three-dimensional |
| 3C | Chromosome conformation capture |
| ACK | Ancestral Crucifer Karyotype |
| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| APK | Ancestral Phaseoleae Karyotype |
| arabidopsis | Arabidopsis thaliana |
| BAC | Bacterial artificial chromosome |
| Brachypodium | Brachypodium distachyon |
| Cas | CRISPR-associated protein |
| CCP | Comparative chromosome painting |
| CENH3 | Centromeric histone H3 variant |
| ChIA-PET | Chromatin interaction analysis by paired-end tag sequencing |
| CP | Chromosome painting |
| CR | Chromosome rearrangement |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| CT | Chromosome territory |
| CWR | Crop wild relative |
| dCas | Nuclease-deficient (‘dead’) CRISPR-associated protein |
| EdU | 5-ethynyl-2′-deoxyuridine |
| FISH | Fluorescence in situ hybridisation |
| FITC | Fluorescein isothiocyanate |
| gDNA | Total genomic DNA |
| GISH | Genomic in situ hybridisation |
| Hi-C | High-throughput chromatin conformation capture |
| HiChIP | In situ Hi-C followed by chromatin immunoprecipitation |
| HVTEM | High-voltage transmission electron microscopy |
| ISH | In situ hybridisation |
| LTR | Long terminal repeat |
| MY | Million years |
| ND | Nucleolar dominance |
| Oligo-FISH | Oligonucleotide fluorescence in situ hybridisation |
| rDNA | Ribosomal DNA |
| REXdb | Database of retrotransposon protein domains |
| rRNA | Ribosomal RNA |
| SEM | Scanning electron microscopy |
| SIM | Structured illumination microscopy |
| TEM | Transmission electron microscopy |
| Topo | Topoisomerase |
| UHVTEM | Ultra-high-voltage transmission electron microscopy |
| WT | Wild type |