| Cas9 | CRISPR associated protein9 |
| CNR | Colorless non ripening |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| DCL1 | Dicer-like RNase III endonuclease 1 |
| HYL1 | HYPONASTIC LEAVES 1 |
| JA | Jasmonic acid |
| MIR | MiRNA-coding gene |
| miRNA | MicroRNA |
| miRNA* | MiRNA star or passenger strand |
| miRISC | MiRNA-induced silencing complex |
| pre-miRNA | MiRNA precursor |
| pri-miRNA | Primary microRNA transcript |
| RLM-RACE | RNA ligase–mediated RACE |
| SE | SERRATE |
| SRA | Sequence Read Archive |