| AS | Alternative splicing |
| DAS | Differential alternative splicing |
| DSG | Differentially spliced gene |
| DEG | Differentially expressed gene |
| FPKM | Fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads |
| J | Jonathan |
| SD | Starking Delicious |
| HPI | Hours post inoculation |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| SE | Skipped exon |
| RI | Retained intron |
| A3SS | Alternative 3′ splice sites |
| A5SS | Alternative 5′ splice sites |
| MXE | Mutually exclusive exon |
| A. alternata AP | Alternaria alternata apple pathotype |
| Bgt | Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici |
| Pst | Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici |
| M. oryzae | Magnaporthe oryzae |
| Xoo | Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae |
| SJs | Splicing junctions |
| CDS | Coding sequence |
| 5′-UTR | 5′ Un-translated region |
| 3′-UTR | 3′ Un-translated region |
| PTC | Premature stop codons |
| ORF | Open reading frame |
| NMD | Nonsense-mediated-decay |
| JA | Jasmonic acid |
| SA | Salicylic acid |
| ABA | Abscisic acid |
| PR | Pathogenesis-related |
| SR | Serine/arginine-rich |
| PDA | Potato dextrose agar |