Panax Ginseng Phyllosphere Fungal Community Data Under Disease Stress

A 2026 study by Liu Shuang analyzes phyllosphere fungal communities in healthy and diseased Panax ginseng plants. The research compares communities under three fungal infections, revealing distinct niche differentiation and significant changes in alpha diversity and network stability. Functional predictions indicate downregulation of key metabolic pathways like NAD/NADP interconversion.

Use Cases

• Analyze niche differentiation between Basidiomycota (82.0% in leaves) and Ascomycota (94.2% in stems) dominance across plant tissues.
• Model the impact of fungal infection on microbial alpha diversity and co-occurrence network modularity (decreased from 0.8501 to 0.8116).
• Predict functional pathway shifts, such as downregulation of phospholipid biosynthesis, using community composition data.
• Identify enrichment patterns of potentially beneficial taxa like Rhodotorula in leaves under disease stress.

Strengths

• Provides quantified community composition data, including specific phylum percentages (e.g., Basidiomycota 82.0%).
• Includes statistically significant results from community structure analysis (PERMANOVA, p = 0.001).
• Contains functional predictions for metabolic pathways based on the fungal community data.

Limitations

• Dataset is a 26.3 MB DOCX document, not a structured table, limiting direct computational analysis.
• Sample size, row count, and specific columnar data are unknown from the input.
• Geographic origin and specific temporal coverage of the sample collection are not provided.

Provenance

Source

Liu Shuang via figshare.

Collection Method

Comparative analysis of phyllosphere fungal communities from healthy Panax ginseng and plants with three fungal infections (gray mold, damping-off, root rot).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 26, III.

Geography

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