Collection of pearl millet RNA sequencing data

Pearl millet (<i>Pennisetum glaucum</i>, also known as <i>Cenchrus americanus</i>) is a C4 cereal crop that can tolerate stressed conditions including drought-stressed, high temperature-stressed and nutrient-poor conditions. Transcriptomes of pearl millet were studied by RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) to understand mechanisms regulating its development and tolerance to such stressed conditions in previous studies. We collected RNA-Seq reads from as many of such studies in the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) BioProject database as popssible, and mapped them to the pearl millet reference genome to obtain read counts and transcripts per million (TPM) for each pearl millet gene. Here, the resulting count and TPM data as well as the attributes of the samples used for the RNA-Seq are provided. These data can be updated when a new study with RNA-Seq of pearl millet samples has become available.