Clubroot-Resistant and Susceptible Rapeseed Rhizosphere Microbiome and Transcriptome Data

China's rapeseed industry faces severe threats from clubroot disease, affecting over 667,000 hectares annually. This dataset compares soil properties, rhizosphere microbial communities, and transcriptomic responses between a susceptible (HYZ62) and a resistant (HYZ5R) rapeseed variety after Plasmodiophora brassicae infection. The data, authored by Jingjing Liao and last updated in April 2026, is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify microbial taxa associated with disease resistance based on relative abundance comparisons of genera like Burkholderia-Caballeronia-Paraburkholderia and Trichoderma.
• Analyze differential gene expression patterns for defense-related genes such as CML, WRKY, PR1, RIN4, RPS5, and HSP90.
• Correlate soil physicochemical properties like electrical conductivity and alkali-hydrolysable nitrogen with plant disease outcomes.
• Investigate suppression of secondary metabolic pathways like phenylpropanoid biosynthesis in susceptible plants post-infection.

Strengths

• Includes specific quantitative measurements: disease indices of 54.86 (susceptible) and 17.05 (resistant), and a 30.36% decrease in Bacillus abundance.
• Compares multiple data layers: soil properties, microbiome composition, and host transcriptome from controlled experiments.
• Well-defined experimental contrast between two specific rapeseed varieties (HYZ62 and HYZ5R) under inoculated and uninoculated conditions.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small (27.9 KB), suggesting limited scope, likely a summary table rather than raw sequencing data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Jingjing Liao.

Collection Method

Likely generated from controlled laboratory experiments comparing two rapeseed varieties.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 05:31:30; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Research context is China's rapeseed industry.