Transcriptomic dataset of Phaseolus vulgaris leaves in response to the inoculation of pathogenic Xanthomonas citri pv. fuscans and its type III secretion system-defective mutant hrcV

<i>Xanthomonas citri</i> pv. <i>fuscans</i> (<i>Xcf</i>) and <i>Xanthomonas phaseoli</i> pv. <i>phaseoli</i> (<i>Xpp</i>) are responsible for the Common Bacterial Blight (CBB), a major common bean (<i>Phaseolus vulgaris</i>) disease. The pathogenicity of <i>Xcf</i> and <i>Xpp</i> is known to be dependent upon a functional Type III Secretion System (T3SS) allowing the injection of numerous bacterial Type III Effectors (T3Es) into plant cells. T3Es have been described as able to disrupt plant defence and manipulate plant metabolism. In this work we described the transcriptomic response of one susceptible (Flavert) and one resistant (Vezer) cultivars of <i>P. vulgaris</i> to the inoculation of the virulent strain <i>Xcf</i> CFBP4885 or its avirulent T3SS-defective <i>hrcV</i> mutant (CFBP13802). Leaves of both bean cultivars were infiltrated with water or bacterial suspensions. Inoculated leaves were sampled at 24 or 48 h post inoculation (hpi). The experiment was independently repeated three times for total RNA extraction and sequencing analysis. Library construction and total RNA sequencing were performed with BGISEQ-500 at Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI, Hong-Kong), generating an average of 24M of paired-end reads of 100bp per sample. FastQC was used to check reads quality. Mapping analyses were made using a quasi-mapping alignment from Salmon (version 1.2.1) against the <i>Phaseolus vulgaris</i> reference genome (version 2.1), revealing the expression profiles of 36,978 transcripts in leaf tissues. Fastq raw data and count files from 36 samples are available in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) repository of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) under the accession number GSE271236. This dataset is a valuable resource to investigate the role of T3Es in subverting the cellular functions of bean.