| BITC | benzyl isothiocyanate |
| DEGs | differential expression genes |
| FPKMs | Fragments Per Kilobase of exon model per Million mapped reads |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| qRT-PCR | quantitative Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| SEM | scanning electron microscopy |