Endophytic and rhizophytic prokaryotic communities in S. alterniflora and petroleum degradation (field)

The overall goal is to develop a mechanistic understanding of plant bacterial symbioses in relation to petroleum/dispersant pollution in saline marshes. The work in its entirety characterizes the transport, fate and catabolic activities of bacterial communities in petroleum-polluted soils and within plant tissues. This dataset was obtained from Illumina's MiSeq platform to characterize the taxonomy and function of microbial communities inside of Spartina alterniflora tissues and in the rhizosphere, while relating these communities to the chemical evolution of crude oil constituents in plant tissues and in soil. Samples were obtained from Port Fourchon and Bay Jimmy in Louisiana. This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org.