| PH | Plant height |
| EH | Ear height |
| GWAS | Genome-wide association studies |
| β-PH | Plasticity values of plant height |
| β-EH | Plasticity values of ear height |
| FPKM | Fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| GCA | Significant general combining ability |