Transcriptomic data of mature oil palm basal trunk tissue infected with Ganoderma boninense

Nur Qistina Othman; Suhaila Sulaiman; Yang Ping Lee; Joon Sheong Tan

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104288

Transcriptomic data of mature oil palm basal trunk tissue infected with Ganoderma boninense

Data Brief. 2019 Jul 19:25:104288. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104288. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Authors

Nur Qistina Othman¹, Suhaila Sulaiman¹, Yang Ping Lee¹, Joon Sheong Tan¹

Affiliation

¹ FGV R&D Sdn. Bhd., FGV Innovation Centre (Biotechnology), PT 23417 Lengkuk Teknologi, 71760 Bandar Enstek, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.

Abstract

To date, Ganoderma boninense is known to be the causal agent of basal stem rot (BSR) disease in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). This disease causes rotting in the roots, basal and upper stem of oil palm. Infection causes progressive destruction of the basal tissues at the oil palm trunk and internal dry rotting, particularly at the intersection between the bole and trunk. Molecular responses of oil palm during infection are not well study although this information is crucial to strategize effective measures to control or eliminate BSR. Here we report three sets of transcriptome data from samples of near-rot section of basal stem tissue of oil palm tree infected with G. boninense (IPIT), healthy section of basal stem tissue of the same G. boninense infected palm (IPHT) and the healthy section of basal stem tissue of the healthy palm (HPHT). The raw reads were deposited into NCBI database and can be accessed via BioProject accession number PRJNA530030.

Keywords: Basal stem rot; Ganoderma boninense; Infection; Oil palm.