| DT | Drought-tolerant cherry rootstock |
| DS | Drought-susceptible cherry rootstock |
| TCA cycle | Tricarboxylic acid cycle |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| PPI | Protein−Protein Interaction |
| ABA | Abscisic acid |
| SG | Stress group |
| CG | Control group |
| LWC | Relative water content |
| FPKM | Fragments Per Kilobase of transcript per Million mapped fragments |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| KOG/COG | euKaryotic 87tssOrthologous Groups/Clusters of Orthologous Groups |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| qRT-PCR | Quantitative real-time PCR |
| GC-MS | Gas chromatography-mass spectrometer |
| RI | Retention time index |
| QC | Quality control |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| OPLS-DA | Orthogonal projections to latent structures-discriminant analysis |
| VIP | Variable importance in the projection |
| CDS | Coding sequence |
| TFs | Transcription factors |