| a | Additive effect |
| aa | Additive-by-additive (epistatic) interaction effect |
| BIO | Dry weight per plant at harvest |
| C | Control |
| CIM | Composite Interval Mapping |
| CS | Chinese Spring |
| CSDH | 94 doubled haploid lines from the cross between hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes Chinese Spring (CS) and SQ1 (a breeding line) |
| WC | Field water capacity |
| GE | genotype × environment |
| GN | Grain number per plant |
| HI | Harvest index |
| MD | Moderate drought |
| R2 | coefficient of determination |
| SD | Severe drought |
| SMA | Single Marker Analysis |
| TGW | Thousand grain weight |
| TPC | Total phenolic content |
| QTL | Quantitative Trait Loci |
| WSC | Water Soluble Carbohydrates |
| Yield | Grain yield of the main stem |