| CTAB | Hexadecyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide |
| PH | Plant Height |
| GW | Grain Width |
| GL | Grain Length |
| GN | Grain Number |
| TGW | Thousand-grain Weight |
| GLWR | Grain Length-width Ratio |
| LMC | Leaf Margin Color |
| AC | Apiculus Color |
| SC | Stigma Color |
| LSC | Leaf Sheath Color |
| SSR | Simple Sequence Repeats |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| InDel | Insertion-Deletion |
| RFLP | Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| MAS | Marker-assisted Selection |
| PAGE | Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| CSSLs | Chromosome Segment Substitution Lines |
| SSSLs | Single Segment Substitution Lines |
| NILs | Near Iso-genic Lines |
| DHs | Double Haploid Lines |
| LOD | Logarithm of The Odds |
| PVE | Phenotypic Variation Explained |
| QTL | Quantitative Trait Locus |
| BSA | Bulked Segregants Analysis Sequencing |
| Chr. | Chromosome |
| RNA-seq | RNA-Sequencing |
| WGRS | Whole Genome Re-sequencing |
| GWAS | Genome Wide Association Study |
| BSA | Bulked Segregants Analysis |
| GA | Gibberellin Acid |
| SEM | Scanning Electron Microscope |
| MAPK | Mitogen-activated protein kinase |
| bHLH | Basic Helix-loop-helix Transcription Factor |
| UTR | Untranslated Regions |
| CDS | Coding DNA sequence |
| ncRNA | Non-coding RNA |
| CAD | Cinnamyl Alcohol Dehydrogenase |
| Mt | Mitochondrion |
| Pt | Chloroplast |