This project encompasses RNA sequencing of two phylogenetically distinct plant species: the root holoparasite Boschniakia himalaica (Orobanchaceae) and its natural host Rhododendron przewalskii (Ericaceae). Tissues were collected from the same parasi
This project provides raw Illumina RNA-seq data for a de novo transcriptome assembly of the root holoparasite Boschniakia himalaica (Orobanchaceae) and its natural host Rhododendron przewalskii (Ericaceae). Tissues were sampled from the same parasitized individuals in a natural alpine population on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Gansu Province, China; 37.0070 N, 102.1719 E, 3464 m a.s.l.). The dataset includes tubers and inflorescences of B. himalaica, as well as roots and leaves of R. przewalskii, with three biological replicates per tissue. These data support an integrated metabolome-transcriptome analysis aimed at characterizing organ-specific metabolic partitioning and contrasting species-associated xanthone modification patterns in this holoparasitic system.