| NGS | Next-Generation Sequencing |
| IOC | International Olive Council |
| NOGB | National Olive Germplasm Bank of Greece |
| WOGBC | World Olive Germplasm Bank of IFAPA, Córdoba |
| PDO | Protected Designation of Origin |
| PGI | Protected Geographical Indication |
| LAB | Lactic Acid Bacteria |
| TPC | Total Polyphenol Content |
| HPLC | High-Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| GAE | Gallic Acid Equivalents |
| PCA | Plate Count agar |
| MRS | De Man–Rogosa–Sharpe |
| VRBG | Violet Red Bile Glucose agar |
| YGC | Yeast Glucose Chloramphenicol agar |
| CFU | Colony Forming Units |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| TE | Tris-EDTA |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| Rep | Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic Elements |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| NADH | Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Hydrogen |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| ASV | Amplicon Sequence Variant |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| PCoA | Principal Component Analysis |