ITS amplicon data from sediments in oil sand process affected water
Sediment, rhizosphere, and root samples were thawed at 4 C for 72 hours and poured into Petri dishes placed on ice. The roots were sorted while preserving the soil tightly attached to them (rhizosphere). Then, the remaining sediments were thoroughly homogenized, transferred into PowerBead Pro tubes (250 mg), provided with the DNeasy PowerSoil Pro kit (QIAGEN), frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80C.Isolation of DNA was performed with the DNeasy PowerSoil Pro kit. Fungi were targeted by sequencing the ITS2 region using the primer pair ITS9F  and ITS4R.