| ABA | Abscisic acid |
| CCR | Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase |
| CDD | Conserved Domain Database |
| CDS | Coding sequences |
| GA3 | Gibberellin |
| HMM | Hidden Markov Model |
| Ka/Ks | Ratio of nonsynonymous substitutions per nonsynonymous site (Ka) to synonymous substitutions per synonymous site (Ks) |
| MCL | Markov cluster algorithm |
| PEG | Polyethylene glycol |
| RT-qPCR | Real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR |
| UTR | Untranslated region |