Project description:We used the RNA-Seq platform to perform a de novo transcriptome assembly to analyze chrysanthemum (Dendranthema grandiflorum) transcription response to low temperature. Using Illumina sequencing technology, a total of 86,444,237 high-quality clean reads and 93,837 unigenes were generated from four libraries: T01, controls; T02, 4 ℃ cold acclimation (CA) for 24 h; T03, -4 ℃ freezing treatments for 4 h with prior CA; and T04, -4 ℃ freezing treatments for 4 h without prior CA. In total, 7583 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) of 36462 annotated unigenes were identified.