Relationships between rhizosphere microbial communities, soil abiotic properties and root trait variation within a pine species

Rhizosphere microbes play important roles in plant performance and ecosystem functioning. It is becoming increasingly clear that rhizosphere communities vary with soil properties and variation in root traits among plant species. However, less is known about whether and how variation in root traits within plant species influences the rhizosphere microbial communities.
We evaluated the intraspecific root traits variation and explored their associations with bacterial and fungal communities in rhizosphere by focusing on an ectomycorrhizal tree species, i.e., Pinus massoniana, in 22 sites in subtropical China.
The first dimension of the principal component analysis on root traits revealed evidence for the ‘conservation’ gradient of the root economics space. Overall, root traits explained more variation in fungal communities than in bacterial communities in the rhizosphere. Functional composition of rhizosphere microbial communities changed significantly along the ‘conservation’ gradient, wi..., , , The data set was obtained from a field observation study in Pinus massoniana forests in subtropical China. The data set includes root traits data, soil properties data, and bacterial and fungal community composition data from the rhizosphere based on high-throughput sequencing.

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1\. Title of Dataset: Relationships between rhizosphere microbial communities, soil abiotic properties and root trait variation within a pine species

2\. Author Information

Principal Investigator Contact Information

Name: Dunmei Lin

Institution: Chongqing University

Address: Chongqing， China

Email: [e-mail]

3\. Date of data collection (approximate date): 2019-2020

4\. Geographic location of data collection: 'Sishan area' of Chongqing, China

5\. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Chongqing Technology Innovation and Application Demonstration Major Theme Special Project

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