UPLC–MS/MS	Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Car	Carotenoid
Chl	Chlorophyll
DAMs	Differentially Accumulated Metabolites
DEGs	Differentially Expressed Genes
FDR	False Discovery Rate
FC	Fold Change
HMDB	Human Metabolome Database
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
log2FC	log2 Fold Change
OPLS-DA	Orthogonal Partial Least Squares-Discriminant Analysis
PAL	Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase
PCA	Principal Component Analysis
PEG-8000	Polyethylene glycol-8000
QE HF	Quadrupole-Orbitrap HF
RNA-seq	RNA Sequencing
TCA	tricarboxylic acid cycle
TRIzol	Tri Reagent
VAHTS	Vazyme Advanced High-throughput Sequencing
Welch’s t-test	Welch’s Student’s t-test