Species,"Cistanche deserticola" "Sample Location","Ebinur Lake of Xinjiang (A: saline–alkali land), Tula Village of Xinjiang (B: grassland) and Alxa Left Banner of Inner Mongolia (C: sandy land) in northwestern China" "Sample Part","succulent stems" "Sequencing platform","Illumina HiSeq 2500" "Sequencing data","452,127,818 raw reads, 440,565,178 clean reads" "Assembly software",Trinity "Assembly result","52,043 unigenes were obtained, 71.51% of them have lengths mainly distributed between 300 and 2000 bp, while 8.64% of them have lengths greater than 2000 bp" "Annotation Method","KEGG, Swiss-Prot, COG/KOG, Nr, Nt, GO"