| ABA | Abscisic acid |
| ACC | 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid |
| ACS5 | ACC synthase 5 |
| BiFC | bimolecular fluorescence complementation |
| BIN2 | brassinosteroid (BR)-insensitive 2 |
| BTB | Bric-a-brac (Bab), Tramtrack (Ttk) and Broad-complex (BR-C) |
| CHX | cycloheximide |
| CK2 | casein kinase 2 |
| ETO1 | ethylene overproducer 1 |
| EOL1 | ETO1-like 1 |
| EOL2 | ETO1-like 2 |
| MS | Murashige and Skoog |
| NPR1/3/4 | non-expresser of pathogenesis-related genes 1/3/4 |
| PP2C | protein phosphatase 2C |
| PTM | post-translational modification |
| qPCR | quantitative real-time PCR |
| SnRK2 | sucrose non-fermenting-1-related protein kinase 2 |