Transcriptome dataset from bark and latex tissues of three Hevea brasiliensis clones

Mohd Fahmi Abu Bakar; Urwashi Kamerkar; Siti Nurfazilah Abdul Rahman; Muhd Khairul Luqman Muhd Sakaff; Ahmad Sofiman Othman

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.106188

Transcriptome dataset from bark and latex tissues of three Hevea brasiliensis clones

Data Brief. 2020 Aug 17:32:106188. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106188. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Authors

Mohd Fahmi Abu Bakar¹, Urwashi Kamerkar², Siti Nurfazilah Abdul Rahman², Muhd Khairul Luqman Muhd Sakaff³, Ahmad Sofiman Othman²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Bioresources & Food Industry, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Besut Campus, 22200 Besut, Terengganu, Malaysia.
² School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11700 Minden, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
³ Centre of Chemical Biology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia.

Abstract

Hevea brasiliensis is exploited for its latex production, and it is the only viable source of natural rubber worldwide. The demand for natural rubber remains high due its high-quality properties, which synthetic rubber cannot compete with. In this paper, we present transcriptomic data and analysis of three H. brasiliensis clones using tissue from latex and bark tissues collected from 10-year-old plant. The combined, assembled transcripts were mapped onto an H. brasiliensis draft genome. Gene ontology analysis showed that the most abundant transcripts related to molecular functions, followed by biological processes and cellular components. Simple sequence repeats (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) were also identified, and these can be useful for selection of parental and new clones in a breeding program. Data generated by RNA sequencing were deposited in the NCBI public repository under accession number PRJNA629890.

Keywords: Hevea brasiliensis; Simple sequence repeats; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Transcriptome.