| AACT | Acetyl-CoA C-acetyltransferase |
| CAS | Cycloartenol synthase |
| cDNA | Complementary DNA |
| CMK | 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol kinase |
| DDS | Dammarenediol II synthase |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| DMAPP | Dimethylallyl diphosphate |
| DXR | 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate reductoisomerase |
| DXS | 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate synthase |
| FC | Fold change |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| FPKM | The fragments per kilobase of transcript per Million mapped reads |
| FPPS | Farnesyl-diphosphate synthase |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| GPPS | Geranyl-diphosphate synthase |
| GT | Glycosyltransferases |
| HDR | 4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate reductase |
| HDS | (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl-diphosphate synthase |
| HMGR | Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase |
| HMGS | Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA synthase |
| IDI | Isopentenyl-diphosphate Delta-isomerase |
| IPP | Isopentenyl pyrophosphate |
| LS | Lupeol synthase |
| LSS | Lanosterol synthase |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| KOG | Clusters of euKaryotic Orthologous Groups |
| MCT | 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate cytidylyltransferase |
| MDC | Diphosphomevalonate decarboxylase |
| MDS | 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase |
| MEP | 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol-4-phosphate |
| MK | Mevalonate kinase |
| MVA | Mevalonate |
| NR | NCBI non-redundant protein sequences |
| NT | NCBI nucleotide sequences |
| PDMO | Cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenases |
| PlnTFDB | Plant transcription factor database |
| PMK | Phosphomevalonate kinase |
| qRT-PCR | Quantitative real-time PCR |
| SM | Squalene monooxygenase |
| SS | Squalene synthase |
| TF | Transcriptome factor |
| TGICL | TGI clustering tool |
| α-AS | α-amyrin synthase |
| β-AS | β-amyrin synthase |