| DAFs | differentially accumulated flavonoids |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| DR | down-regulated |
| FLNC | full-length non-chimeric |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| KOG | euKaryotic orthologous groups of proteins |
| M1 | Mingui 1 |
| M2 | Mingui 2 |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| OPLS-DA | orthogonal projection to latent structures-discriminant analysis |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| REL | relative expression level |
| RPKM | Reads Per kb per Million |
| TF | transcription factor |
| UR | up-regulated |