| FHB | Fusarium head blight |
| STB | Septoria tritici blotch |
| SNB | Septoria nodorum blotch |
| GER | Gibberella ear rot |
| FER | Fusarium ear rot |
| NCLB | Northern corn leaf blight |
| QTL | Quantitative trait locus |
| MDR | Multi-disease resistance |
| R | Resistance gene (race-specific) |
| QDR | Quantitative disease resistance |
| ETI | Effector-triggered immunity |
| GS | Genomic selection |
| GP | Genomic prediction |
| MAS | Marker-assisted selection |
| MARS | Marker-assisted recurrent selection |
| GWAS | Genome-wide association study |
| SNP | Single-nucleotide polymorphism |
| LD | Linkage disequilibrium |
| GEBV | Genomic estimated breeding values |