Quinoa Salinity Tolerance: Metabolic and Transcriptomic Profiles with AMF Inoculation

Soumaya Zaidi's dataset from 2026 contains integrative metabolic, ionic, and transcriptomic profiles of quinoa plants under salinity stress with or without arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inoculation. The data includes measurements of growth, chlorophyll concentration, ion accumulation, metabolite profiles, and gene expression patterns from an early vegetative-stage experiment. The file is 66.4 KB in size and was last updated on May 20, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze shifts in carbon flux and chlorophyll biosynthesis pathways based on metabolite profiles.
• Identify gene co-expression modules correlated with salinity tolerance traits based on transcriptomic data.
• Model the relationship between ion accumulation, osmotic adjustment compounds, and plant growth under stress.
• Compare the regulatory roles of upregulated and repressed stress-responsive genes mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Integrates multiple data types: metabolomic, ionic, and transcriptomic profiles from a controlled experiment.
• Specific biological findings are described, such as reduced Cl- accumulation and increased chlorophyll levels in AMF-inoculated plants.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is small at 66.4 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• The description does not specify the number of biological replicates or the exact salinity levels used.

Provenance

Source

Soumaya Zaidi, via figshare.

Collection Method

Data likely originates from a controlled laboratory experiment where quinoa plants were exposed to different salinity levels with or without AMF inoculation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 05:44:15.