| BBS | Bangladesh bureau of statistics |
| CRD | Completely randomized design |
| CMS | Cell membrane stability |
| EMS | Ethyl methanesulfonate |
| FAO | Food and agriculture organization |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| LD | Linear discriminant |
| LDA | Linear discriminant analysis |
| LRWC | Leaf relative water content |
| MoEF | Ministry of environment and forest |
| PC | Principal component |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PEG | Polyethylene glycol |
| PPED | Photoperiod with photosynthetic photon flux density |
| Q1 | First quartile (25th Percentile) |
| Q3 | Third quartile (75th Percentile) |
| RDW | Root dry weight |
| RFW | Root fresh weight |
| RH | Relative humidity |
| RHCOC | Robust hierarchical co-cluster |
| RL | Root length |
| RSR | Root-shoot weight ratio |
| RTWC | Root tissue water content |
| RWC | Relative water content |
| SDW | Shoot dry weight |
| SFW | Shoot fresh weight |
| SL | Shoot length |
| STI | Stress tolerance index |
| STWC | Shoot tissue water content |
| SVI | Seedling vigor index |