Fungal Community and Pest Abundance Data from Quinoa Fields in Colorado

A dataset characterizing fungal communities associated with quinoa plants and their relationship to infestation by the stem-boring fly Amauromyza karli. The data was generated by Neha Panwar using culture-based isolation and amplicon sequencing across six site-year combinations in Colorado. It was last updated on April 22, -2026.

Use Cases

• Identifying fungal taxa correlated with high pest abundance based on indicator and differential-abundance analyses.
• Modeling relationships between soil fungal diversity metrics and adult fly counts based on correlation results.
• Investigating site-specific fungal community clustering for quinoa resilience strategies based on beta-diversity results.

Strengths

• Includes data from six distinct site-year combinations, allowing for temporal and spatial comparison.
• Characterizes 18 isolated stem endophytes and 23 core amplicon sequence variants from soil.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 10.2 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Culture-based isolation from stems and amplicon-based profiling of rhizosphere soils.

Time Range

Site-year combinations suggest data was collected over multiple years, but specific range is not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 05:46:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Quinoa fields in Colorado, USA.