263 MAG annotations for three nested metagenomic studies describe crop-shrub-microbe interactions in an agroecology system in the Sahel

The Sahel region of West Africa is a vulnerable eco-region, where climate change induced drought and a rapidly growing population pose serious threats to food security and contribute to soil degradation. Local and biologically based systems are necessary to maintain crop yields and soil health, and intercropping with native woody shrubs Guiera senegalensis has been discovered as a solution. We have previously shown that soil microbial communities are significantly altered by the presence of shrubs, and that these organisms may have plant growth promoting properties. Here, we augment those data with metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data across three nested experiments: a landscape scale experiment across a rainfall and soil type gradient, a long-term experimental site, and a growth chamber simulated drought experiment.  We  recovered 263 95% ANI dereplicated metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)  of medium and high quality to evaluate their relative enrichment and what their encoded metabolisms reveal about mechanisms of microbiome millet support. These data contribute to our understanding of the role of the microbial community crop drought resilience in the Sahel and in semi-arid cropping systems globally. Here we present the DRAM annotations of each MAG, all associated metadata, viral genes and vOTUs from the Optimized Shrub Intercropping Study (OSS), and eukaryotic contigs from the OSS