Fritillaria Thunbergii Microbiome Data Across Four Chinese Populations

Metabarcoding data characterizes bacterial and fungal communities in the rhizosphere soil and bulbs of the medicinal plant Fritillaria thunbergii. The study covers four geographically distinct populations in China, analyzing biogeographic patterns, assembly mechanisms, and ecological networks. Author Yang Gao employed co-occurrence network and phylogenetic analyses to investigate plant-microbe interactions.

Use Cases

• Analyze bacterial and fungal community diversity and composition differences across the four geographic populations.
• Investigate the ecological relevance of core taxa versus unique taxa within bacterial and fungal co-occurrence networks.
• Examine microdiverse clades shaped by environmental selection for insights into functional resilience.
• Study the assembly mechanisms of rhizosphere and endophytic microbiomes influenced by geographic isolation and environmental factors.

Strengths

• Data derived from four distinct geographic populations, enabling comparative biogeographic analysis.
• Includes co-occurrence network analysis revealing roles of core and unique microbial taxa.
• Employs phylogenetic analysis to uncover environmentally selected microdiverse clades.

Limitations

• Dataset scope is limited to four populations, which may not represent the full geographic or ecological range of the species.
• Data is provided in a DOCX document format (8.1 MB), requiring extraction for computational analysis rather than being in a ready-to-use tabular structure.
• Sample size and specific row/column counts for underlying sequence data are not provided in the description.

Provenance

Source

Yang Gao via figshare.

Collection Method

Metabarcoding of bacterial and fungal communities from rhizosphere soil and plant bulbs.

Time Range

null

Freshness

Last updated March 26, 2026.

Geography

Four populations in China.