Table 2.

Summary of published transcriptomics data used in our study with detailed information on methodology and data sets.

Plant material	Growth stage at which drought stress was applied and part of tissue collected	Transcriptomics analysis method	Threshold and level of fold change considered for DEG	Blast e-value	References
Drought tolerant pearl millet J-2454	29 Days after sowing (leaf tissues but non-specific part mentioned)	Trinity platform (de novo assembly)	FDR< 0.05, 2.0	10-3	Jaiswal et al., 2018
PLRT2/89-33 (tolerant) and H77/833-2 (sensitive)	40 Days after sowing (flag leaf)	Trinity platform (de novo assembly)	FDR< 0.05, 2.0	10-5	Shivhare et al., 2020b
PLRT2/89-33 (tolerant)	25 Days (upper most leaf) and 40 DAS after sowing (flag leaf)	Assembly using reference genome	FDR< 0.05, 2.0	10-5	Shivhare et al., 2020a