| ABA | Abscisic acid |
| ABI | ABA-INSENSITIVE |
| AGEs | Advanced glycoxidation end products |
| AGL | AGAMOUS-like |
| AHG | ABA Hypersensitive Germination |
| AKR | Aldo-ketoreductase |
| BER | Base excision repair |
| CMT | Chromomethylase |
| DME | Demeter |
| DOG | DELAY OF GERMINATION |
| DOGL | DELAY OF GERMINATION-like |
| DREB2D | Dehydration-responsive element-binding protein 2D |
| DT | Desiccation tolerance |
| DRM | Domains rearranged methyltransferase |
| FPG | Formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase |
| FUS | FUSCA |
| GA | Gibberellic acid |
| GA3ox | Gibberellin 3-oxidase |
| GAAS | Germination Ability After STORAGE |
| HsfA | Heat shock transcription factor |
| HSI2 | High-level expression of Sugar-Inducible gene |
| HSL1 | HSI2-like1 |
| HSP | Heat shock proteins |
| LAFL | Network of transcription factors (LEC1, ABI3, FUS3 and LEC2) |
| LEA | Late embryogenesis abundant |
| LEC | LEAFY COTYLEDONS |
| LPP | Lipid phosphate phosphatase |
| MET | Methyltransferase |
| MSR | Methionine sulfoxide reductase |
| NCED | 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase |
| OGG 1 | 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase/lyase |
| PARP | Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase |
| PIMT | L-isoaspartylmethyl transferase |
| PKL | PICKLE |
| PKR | PICKLE-RELATED |
| PLATZ | Plant AT-rich sequence- and Zinc-binding protein |
| PRC | Polycomb Repressive Complex |
| PYR/PYL/RCAR | Pyrabactin resistance/PYR-like/Regulatory component of abscisic acid receptor |
| RdDM | RNA directed DNA Methylation |
| RFO | Raffinose family oligosaccharides |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| ROS1 | Repressor of silencing1 |
| DML1 | Demeter-like1 |
| SMP | Seed maturation protein |
| SnRK | Sucrose-nonfermenting related kinase |
| TXN | Thioredoxin |
| VAL | VP1/ABI3-like |