ABA	abscisic acid
ABF/AREB	ABA‐responsive element binding protein/ABRE‐binding factor
ABI5	ABA insensitive 5
AFPs	ABI5-binding proteins
BP	biological process
CC	cellular component
CK	the control check
COP1	constitutively photomorphogenic1
DAR	days of after-ripening process
ddH2O	double distilled water
DEGs	differentially expressed genes
Em	embryo
En	endosperm
Em/En	the rate of embryo to endosperm
FPKM	fragments per kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped
FUS	FUSCA
GA	gibberellin
GID1	GA insensitive dwarf1
GO	Gene Ontology
HA	10 mg l−1 ABA
HPLC-MS	high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
IAA	auxin
JA	jasmonic acid
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
LA	1 mg l−1 ABA
LEA	late embryogenesis abundant
MAP2K	mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase
MAP3K	mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase
MAPK	mitogen-activated protein kinase
MF	molecular function
MPD	morphophysiological dormancy
OPDA	12-oxo-phytodienoic acid
P450	P-450 mono-oxygenases
PP2Cs	type 2C protein phosphatases
PYL	pyracbactin resistance-like
PYR	pyracbactin resistance
qRT-PCR	quantitative real-time PCR
RCARs	regulatory component of ABA receptors
SnRK2	SNF1-related protein kinase subfamily 2
TCA cycle	citrate cycle