| aa | Amino acid |
| ACD1 | Accelerated cell death 1 |
| AO | Ascorbate oxidase |
| AP1 | APETALA 1 |
| AP2-EREBP | APETALA 2/ethylene-responsive element binding protein |
| APX | Ascorbate peroxidase |
| AsA | Ascorbic acid |
| bp | Base pair |
| CDS | Coding sequence |
| CK | Control check |
| CO | CONSTANS |
| DHA | Dehydroascorbate |
| DPA | Days post anthesis |
| FLC | FLOWERING LOCUS C |
| FPKM | Fragments Per Kilobase of exon model per Million mapped reads |
| FT | FLOWERING LOCUS T |
| FVE | FLOWERING LOCUS VE |
| GI | GIGANTEA |
| GSDS | Gene Structure Display Server |
| Ka | Nonsynonymous substitution rate |
| Ks | Synonymous substitution rate |
| LFY | LEAFY |
| MCO | Multicopper oxidase |
| MDHA | Monodehydroascorbate |
| MEME | Multiple Em for Motif Elicitation |
| MeV | MultiExperiment Viewer |
| MW | Molecular weight |
| NAC2 | NAC DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 2 |
| NAP | NAC DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| NJ | Neighbor-joining |
| ORF | Open reading frame |
| PCD | Programmed cell death |
| PDCD5 | PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH PROTEIN 5 |
| PPH | PHENOPHYTIN PHEOPHORBIDE HYDROLASE |
| pI | Isoelectric point |
| PIF | PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR |
| qRT-PCR | Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction |
| rRNA | Ribosomal RNA |
| redox | Reduction/oxidation |
| RT-PCR | Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| SAG | Senescence-associated gene |
| SEN | SENESCENCE |
| SOC1 | SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS 1 |
| TF | Transcription factor |
| WRKY6 | WRKY DNA-BINDING PROTEIN 6 |
| WT | Wild-type |