| Co | Camellia oleifera |
| At | Arabidopsis thaliana |
| CSS | Camellia sinensis |
| Ac | Actinidia chinensis |
| Pgi | Panax ginseng |
| Mt | Medicago truncatula |
| MVA | mevalonic acid |
| MEP | 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate |
| AACT | acetyl-CoA C-acetyltransferase |
| HMGS | 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase |
| HMGR | 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase |
| MVK | phosphomevalonate kinase |
| PMK | mevalonate kinase |
| MVD | meval-onate diphosphate decarboxylase |
| DXS | 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate synthase |
| DXR | 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate reductase |
| MCT | 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate cytidyltransferase |
| CMK | 4-(cytidine 5′-diphospho)-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol kinase |
| MDS | 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase |
| HDS | 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-butenyl 4-diphosphate synthase |
| HDR | 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-butenyl 4-diphosphate reductase |
| IDI | isopentenyl diphosphate delta-isomerase |
| IPP | isopentenyl diphosphate |
| DMAPP | dimethylallyl diphosphate |
| FPP | farnesyl diphosphate |
| FPS | farnesyl diphosphate synthase |
| SS | squalene synthase |
| SE | squalene epoxidase |
| OSC | oxidosqualene cyclase |
| CYP450 | cytochrome P450 monooxygenase enzyme |
| UGT | UDP-glycosyltransferase |
| CAS | cycloartenol synthase |
| DDS | dammarenediol synthase |
| LAS | lanosterol synthase |
| bAS | β-amyrin synthase |
| LUS | lupeol synthase |
| LAS | lanosterol synthase |
| WGCNA | weighted gene co-expression network analysis |
| FPKM | the fragments per kilobase of exon per million mapped reads |