Rhizosphere Soil and Microbiome Data for Medicinal Plants in Four Chinese Regions
by Meiling Yang·Updated 2mo ago
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Description
Four major production regions in China provided paired cultivated and uncultivated soil samples for three Panax species and Achyranthes bidentata. The dataset includes soil physicochemical properties, enzyme activities, and bacterial and fungal community profiles from amplicon sequencing, created by Meiling Yang and last updated in April 2026. It contains measurements of pH, ammonium, nitrate, phosphorus, and microbial taxa to analyze plant-specific effects on the rhizosphere.
Use Cases
Predicting continuous cropping susceptibility based on soil acidification and ammonium accumulation patterns.
Modeling microbial co-occurrence network stability using the reported negative correlation percentages.
Classifying plant ecological strategies (resource-acquisitive vs. conservative) using microbiome composition and soil chemistry data.
Identifying pathogen-prone microbiomes based on the enrichment of specific fungal families like Nectriaceae.
Strengths
Includes paired cultivated and uncultivated control samples from four distinct geographic regions.
Quantifies plant-specific effects using Log2 fold change metrics for multiple soil properties.
Characterizes both bacterial (16S) and fungal (ITS) communities, with plant species explaining 60.5% and 46.2% of their variation, respectively.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
The primary file format is DOCX (15.7 MB), which may require extraction or conversion for analysis.
Provenance
Source
figshare, author Meiling Yang.
Collection Method
Soil samples were analyzed for physicochemical properties, enzyme activities, and microbial communities via amplicon sequencing.
Time Range
The study period is not specified in the provided metadata.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-14 05:28:46; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Samples were collected from four major medicinal plant production regions in China.