| CMS | Cytoplasmic male sterility |
| mCs | Methylated cytosine sites |
| MLs | Methylation levels |
| DMRs | Differentially methylated regions |
| DMGs | Differentially methylated genes |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| DMEGs | DEGs associated with DMRs |
| ETC | Electron transport chain |
| ATP | Adenosine triphosphate |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| PCD | Programmed cell death |
| Rf | Restorer of fertility |
| CMS-WA | Wild-abortive CMS |
| TCA | Tricarboxylic acid |
| PPR | Pentatricopeptide repeat |
| MYB | V-myb avian myeloblastosis vira I oncogene homolog |
| GMS | Genic male sterility |
| NGS | Next-generation sequencing |
| WGBS | Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing |
| TTC | 2,3,5-Triphenyltetrazolium chloride |
| DMCs | Differentially methylated cytosines |
| FPKM | Fragments per kilobase of exons per million fragments mapped |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| BP | Biological process |
| CC | Cellular component |
| MF | Molecular function |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| qRT-PCR | Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction |
| HT | High-temperature |
| COX11 | CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE 11 |
| ICR-CAAS | Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
| CTAB | Cetyltriethylammnonium bromide |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| SRA | Sequence Read Archive |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| cDNA | Complementary DNA |
| SD | Standard deviation |