| AOCC | African Orphan Crops Consortium |
| Cas9 | CRISPR-Associated Protein 9 |
| CFF | Crops For the Future |
| CRISPR-Cas9 | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat-Associated Protein 9 |
| DGE | Differential Gene Expression |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| FAO | Food and Agricultural Organization |
| GC | Gas Chromatography |
| gRNA | Guide ribonucleic Acid |
| HDR | Homology Directed Recombination |
| HPLC | High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| ICP-MS | Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy |
| ICRAF | International Council for Research in Agroforestry |
| mRNA | Messenger Ribonucleic Acid |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| NHEJ | Non-Homologous End Joining |
| PEG | Poly Ethylene Glycol |
| sgRNA | Single Guide Ribonucleic Acid |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| RT-PCR | Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| QTLs | Quantitative Trait Locus |
| TALENs | Transcriptional Activator-Like Effector Nucleases |
| TFPs | Traditional Food Plants |
| Trex2 | Three prime Repair Exonuclease 2 |
| ZFNs | Zinc Finger Nucleases |