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Leaf transcriptome data of two tropical medicinal plants: Sterculia lanceolata and Clausena excavata.

Authors Eom, Seok Hyun; Na, Jong-Kuk

Journal Data in brief , 2019-Aug,:25

DOI 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104297 PubMed 31489347

Abstract The data presented in this article are associated to the research articles, DOI: 10.1007/s11295-019-1348-3, [1]; and DOI: 10.1007/s13205-018-1162-x [2]. Clausena excavata Burm. f. and Sterculia lanceolata Cav. are medicinal tree plants [3,4] native to Southeast Asia and China, and most members of both the genus Clausena and the genus Sterculia contain various valuable secondary metabolites with a great potential for drug development. Though many phytochemical studies have been conducted using plant extracts from various parts of these plants [4,5], there are very limited genetic resources available. RNA sequencing of C. excavata and S. lanceolata was conducted using pair-end Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing system, from which the first de novo transcriptome data were produced for both genus Clausena and Sterculia. Transcriptome shotgun assembly using three different assembly tools [2] generated a total of 16,638 non-redundant contigs (N50, 900 bp) from C. excavata and 7,857 (N50, 423 bp) from S. lanceolata. The data are accessible at NCBI BioProject: PRJNA428402 for C. excavata [2] or PRJNA435648 for S. lanceolata[1].

Species covered 假黄皮 Clausena excavata 假苹婆 Sterculia lanceolata