Overview of the structural and functional microbial diversity of maize rhizosphere and goat manure from an integrated crop

The dataset presents the taxonomic and functional diversity of microbial communities identified from metagenomic sequencing of maize rhizosphere soils and goat manure collected within an integrated crop-livestock system. The samples include rhizosphere soil from different maize field quadrants and a control rhizosphere, as well as goat manure from animals of different age and sex groups. Taxonomic annotation reveals the relative abundance of microbial kingdoms across all samples and highlights the top 15 most abundant microbial taxa at species level. The dataset also presents functional diversity using KEGG annotations, showing major KEGG level 1 metabolic categories and the top 15 KEGG level 3 functional pathways present in the microbiome.