Specifications Table

Subject	Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Specific subject area	Plant Science
Type of data	Text (FASTQ sequence files), table
How data were acquired	Data were generated using RNA HiSeq™ 2000 RNA sequencing technology
Data format	Raw data in FASTQ format
Parameters for data collection	Freshly collected leaf samples (from both control and infected small cardamom plants) was used for RNA isolation
Description of data collection	RNA seq libraries representing control and capsule rot disease stressed small cardamom were prepared and transcriptome sequencing was performed and de novo assembled to generate unigenes
Data source location	Plant growth and treatments were given under controlled conditions at ICRI, Idukki, Kerala, India. Data was generated from Illumina HiSeq™ 2000
Data accessibility	Data is available at NCBI SRA https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/SRX2512359 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/SRX2512358