De novo transcriptomic data of salt tolerant halophytes Dichnathium annulatum (Forssk.) stapf and Urochondra setulosa (Trin.) C.E.Hubb

Anita Mann; Naresh Kumar; Ashwani Kumar; Charu Lata; Arvind Kumar; B L Meena; Sonam Gaba; Monendra Grover

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2021.107536

De novo transcriptomic data of salt tolerant halophytes Dichnathium annulatum (Forssk.) stapf and Urochondra setulosa (Trin.) C.E.Hubb

Data Brief. 2021 Nov 1:39:107536. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107536. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Authors

Anita Mann¹, Naresh Kumar¹, Ashwani Kumar¹, Charu Lata¹, Arvind Kumar¹, B L Meena¹, Sonam Gaba², Monendra Grover²

Affiliations

¹ ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, India.
² ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute, New Delhi 110011 India.

Abstract

Two halophytes, Dichanthium annulatum (moderately salt tolerant) and Urochondra setulosa (highly salt tolerant) were selected to generate transcriptome at different salinity levels. Sequencing of RNA samples was done on Illumina-Hi-Seq platform for de novo transcriptome assembly from the leaf tissues of D. annulatum at salinity of ECe ∼30 dS/m and of U. setulosa at three salt levels (i.e. ECe ∼30, ∼40 and ∼50 dS/m). DESeq was used for identification of differentially expressed transcripts and a total of 267,196 and 384,442 transcripts were assembled through Trinity in both the plants respectively. A total of 32,246 and 25,479 SSRs were identified respectively in both the plants using MISA perl script with mono and tri-nucleotide repeats as most common motif.

Keywords: DEGs; Halophytes; SSR; Salinity; Transcriptomics.