| 4CL | 4-COUMARATE:COA LIGASE |
| AGL | AGAMOUS-LIKE |
| ATMAB | Alkyltrimethylammonium bromide |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| FUL | FRUITFULL |
| gRNA | guideRNA |
| HptII | HYGROMYCIN PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE II |
| HR | homologous recombination |
| MFE | minimum free energy |
| NFP | Nod Factor Perception |
| NHEJ | non-homologous end-joining |
| NptII | NEOMYCIN PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE II |
| P. | Populus |
| PAM | protospacer adjacent motif |
| PtoPDS | PHYTOENE DESATURASE from Populus tomentosa |
| RH | relative humidity |
| RNAi | RNA interference |
| SOC1 | SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS1 |
| TBE | Tris/Borate/EDTA |
| TOZ19 | TORMOZEMBRYO DEFECTIVE 19 |
| WPM | McCown Woody Plant Medium |