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The core of this mangrove transcriptome database lies in 230K sequences from Rhizophora mangle and 305K Heritiera littoralis obtained by 454 sequencing. The average read size was 208 bp. The database contains 25.5K contigs from R. mangle and 32K from H. littoralis. For full details of this sequencing project, see Dassanayake M, J. S. Haas, H. J. Bohnert, J. M. Cheeseman (2009) Shedding light on an extremophile lifestyle through transcriptomics. New Phytologist 183: 764-775 (doi: 10... Plant tissues were harvested from both the greenhouse and the field and stored in liquid nitrogen or RNAlater. R. mangle field samples were collected at Twin Cays, Belize, including leaves, roots, hypocotyl peels, young and mature propagules, and flower buds of stunted and tall individuals and P-fertilized stunted plants. The greenhouse plants originated from this field site. Greenhouse samples included young leaf buds and shoot meristems, mature buds, stipules, young leaves, mature leaves, senescing..