title: Control
design: The first fully expanded leaf from the top of the plants was collected with threereplicates from seven and twelve-day drought treatment along withcorresponding control plants (7day control). The sampleswere immediately frozen and total RNA was extracted using Nucleospin RNA Kit(Macherey Nagel, Duren, Germany). The RNA concentration and integrity of theRNA were detected using Qubit (Thermo Scientific, DE, USA) and RNA Nano6000 of Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100 system (Agilent Technologies, CA, USA) toensure that the samples qualified for RNA sequencing. The libraries wereconstructed using TrueSeq Stranded total RNA HT samples (with Ribo-ZeroDeplete) RNA Library Prep Kit from Illumina. Subsequently, the cDNA librarieswere sequenced using the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (Nucleome Pvt. Ltd,Hyderabad).