transcriptomic data of salt tolerant halophytes (Forssk.) stapf and (Trin.) C.E.Hubb.

Two halophytes, (moderately salt tolerant) and (highly salt tolerant) were selected to generate transcriptome at different salinity levels. Sequencing of RNA samples was done on Illumina-Hi-Seq platform for transcriptome assembly from the leaf tissues of at salinity of ECe ∼30 dS/m and of at three salt levels ( 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.