Species,"Carthamus tinctorius" "Sample Location"," at the medicinal botanical garden, Wenjiang campus, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine." "Sample Part","roots, stems, leaves, seeds, and petals " "Sequencing platform","PacBio RS II" "Sequencing data","4,548,120 subreads (10.43Gb of clean data)" "Assembly software","SMRT Analysis, GMAP, CD-HIT" "Assembly result","79,926 isoforms and 38,302 de-redundant sequences." "Annotation Method","COG, GO, KEGG, KOG, Pfam, Swissprot, NR"