Data of the first de novo transcriptome assembly of the inflorescence of Curcuma alismatifolia
Sima Taheri,
Thohirah Lee Abdullah,
Yusuf Muhammad Noor,
Hirzahida Mohd Padil,
Mahbod Sahebi,
Parisa Azizi
Affiliations
Sima Taheri
Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Corresponding author.
Thohirah Lee Abdullah
Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Yusuf Muhammad Noor
Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Malaysia Genome Institute, Jalan Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Hirzahida Mohd Padil
Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Malaysia Genome Institute, Jalan Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Mahbod Sahebi
Laboratory of Climate-Smart Food Crop Production, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Parisa Azizi
Laboratory of Plantation Science and Technology, Institute of Plantation Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Curcuma alismatifolia, is an Asian crop from Zingiberaceae family, popularly used as ornamental plant in floriculture industry of Thailand and Cambodia. Different varieties with a wide range of colors can be found in species. Until now, few breeding programs have been done on this species and most commercially important cultivars are hybrids that are propagated vegetatively. In spite of other flowering plants, there is still lack of transcriptomic-based data on the functions of genes related to flower color in C. alismatifolia. The raw data presented in this article provides information on new original transcriptome data of two cultivars of C. alismatifolia by Illumina Hiseq. 4000 RNA-Seq technology which is the first ever report about this plant. The data is accessible via European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) under project number PRJEB18956. Keywords: Curcuma alismatifolia, De novo, Illumina, RNA-Seq, Transcriptome assembly
