READ ME File For 'Dataset for The Interaction between Plants and Rhizosphere Microbes' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3554 ReadMe Author: Pengrui Cai, University of Southampton ORCID ID 0009-0002-3204-2304 This dataset supports the thesis entitled The Interaction between Plants and Rhizosphere Microbes AWARDED BY: University of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: 2025 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA This dataset contains:all experimental data used for generating the figures in the thesis, and the zip files are labelled separately according to the figures related. The cvs files are viewable in Microsoft Excel. The data come from DNA sequencing as well as measurement of plant growth promoting traits of bacteria. Date of data collection: 2019-02-28 to 2024-07-20 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA Related projects/Funders: Institute for Life Sciences Date that the file was created: June, 2025 --------------