| AHL | AT-Hook Motif Nuclear Localized gene |
| BLAST | the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| DHNs | dehydrins |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| KOG | Eukaryotic Orthologous Groups |
| LEA | Late Embryogenesis Abundant |
| Nr | NCBI non-redundant protein sequence database |
| Nt | NCBI nucleotide sequences |
| ORFs | Open reading frames |
| Pfam | Protein family |
| SOS | Salt Overly Sensitive |
| SwissProt | Swiss-prot sequence data bases |