Organism/cell line/tissue	Drought stressed root tissues of Sesamum indicum L./cultivated type
Sex	N/A
Sequencer or array type	Illumina HiSeq 4000 platform
Data format	Clean data
Experimental factors	Drought treatments and genotypes
Experimental features	Gene expression profiling under progressive drought stress and recovery phases (5 sampling dates). In total 30 samples from roots of drought sensitive and tolerant genotypes were collected and sequenced to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of response to drought
Consent	N/A
Sample source location	Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 2 Xudong 2nd Road, 430062 Wuhan, Hubei, China