| Quality control | QC |
| Mass spectrometry | MS |
| Shanghai Agricultural Gene Center | SAGC |
| Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry | GC/MS |
| Ultra-performance liquid chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry | UPLC-IMS-QTOF/MS |
| Principal component analysis | PCA |
| Partial least squares-discriminant analysis | PLS-DA |
| Tricarboxylic acid cycle | TCA |
| Variable importance in projection | VIP |