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

摘要

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 excavataBurm. f. andSterculia lanceolataCav. are medicinal tree plants [3,4] native to Southeast Asia and China, and most members of both the genusClausenaand the genusSterculiacontain 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 ofC. excavataandS. lanceolatawas conducted using pair-end Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing system, from which the firstde novotranscriptome data were produced for both genusClausenaandSterculia. Transcriptome shotgun assembly using three different assembly tools [2] generated a total of 16,638 non-redundant contigs (N50, 900 bp) fromC. excavataand 7,857 (N50, 423 bp) fromS. lanceolata. The data are accessible at NCBI BioProject: PRJNA428402 forC. excavata[2] or PRJNA435648 forS. lanceolata[1].