| Specific-locus amplified fragment | SLAF |
| distinctness, uniformity and stability | DUS |
| principal component analysis | PCA |
| International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants | UPOV |
| fragment length polymorphisms | RFLP |
| random amplified polymorphic DNA | RAPD |
| simple sequence repeat | SSR |
| inter-simple sequence repeat | ISSR |
| single nucleotide polymorphism | SNP |
| amplified fragment length polymorphisms | AFLP |
| reduced representation library | RRL |