Integrated analysis of rhizosphere microbiota and soil properties in three Mentha cultivars
This BioProject contains raw amplicon sequencing data (16S rRNA gene V3-V4 and ITS regions) generated from rhizosphere and bulk soil samples collected from field-grown Mentha x villosa (B10), Mentha spicata (B17), and Mentha suaveolens (J17) in Hungary. Samples were collected during the flowering stage under uniform agronomic conditions. The study aims to characterize bacterial and fungal community composition associated with different Mentha cultivars and to provide a resource for investigating plant-soil-microbe interactions in aromatic medicinal crops. Bulk soil samples were collected from vegetation-free inter-row strips serving as baseline soil controls. Sequencing was performed using the Illumina NextSeq 2000 platform with paired-end reads.