| LD | long-day |
| SD | short-day |
| FLC | flowering locus C |
| Y1H | yeast one-hybrid |
| EMSA | electrophoretic mobility shift assay |
| FT | flowering locus T |
| FRI | frigida |
| VIN3 | vernalization insensitive 3 |
| COOLAIR | cold induced long antisense intragenic RNA |
| COLDAIR | cold assisted intronic noncolding RNA |
| SOC1 | suppressor of overexpression of constants 1 |
| VRN1 | vernalization 1 |
| VRN2 | vernalization 2 |
| AP1 | apetala 1 |
| MS | murashige and skoog |
| TUB2 | tubulin beta chain 2 |
| AbA | aureobasidin A |
| IPTG | β-d-1-thiogalactopyranoside |