| miRNA | microRNA |
| DAF | days after flowering |
| qPCR | quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction |
| nt | nucleotide |
| FC | fold change |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| TPM | transcripts per million |
| NGS | next-generation sequencing |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| SPL | SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE |
| GC-MS | Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer |