Sorghum Seedling Transcriptomic Responses to Salt, Drought, Heat, and Cold Stress

RNA-seq data from Sorghum bicolor seedlings subjected to five abiotic stress treatments. The dataset includes 54 strand-specific libraries from leaf tissue sampled at three time points across three biological replicates. Author Won Yim published the data on figshare, with a last update in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify differentially expressed genes based on time-resolved stress treatments.
• Perform Gene Ontology enrichment analysis based on the provided processed data.
• Construct gene co-expression networks based on the transcriptomic profiles.
• Conduct comparative transcriptomic studies of stress responses across cereal crops.

Strengths

• Includes data for five distinct abiotic stress treatments (salt, PEG-induced drought, heat, cold, ABA).
• Time-resolved sampling at 6, 12, and 24 hours post-treatment.
• Three biological replicates per condition, supporting statistical analysis.
• Provides both raw sequencing reads and processed data (differential expression, GO enrichment, co-expression network).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single sorghum cultivar (Hwanggeumchal), limiting genetic diversity.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) on Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform from leaf tissue of treated seedlings.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 23:38:30; freshness should be verified.