UK Crop Microbiome CryoBank
The UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank (UK-CMCB) project (funded by the BBSRC (BB/T019484/1)) integrates genomic (DNA) data with a cryobank collection of samples for the soil microbiomes of six major UK crop plant systems. The UK crops were grown in a glasshouse environment in soils obtained from nine locations across the UK. The soils are agricultural in arable rotation systems, representative of different soil textural and taxonomic types. Microbiomes were collected from the crop rhizospheres at the developmental point of harvest. This study contains amplicon data (raw data in fastq files) for the V3-V4 region of bacterial 16S ribosomal gene and the ITS2 intergenic region of the fungal ribosomal genes, obtained from the rhizosphere of 6 crop plants (Fava Beans, Oilseed rape, Spring barley, Spring Oats, Spring Wheat, Sugar Beet) and bulk soil (Control).