First insights into the rhizospheric bacterial abundance data of Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C.B.Rob. from Indian Sundarbans

This article reports the analyses of the rhizospheric microbiome of the terrestrial mangrove Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C.B.Rob. from the Indian Sundarbans. Samples were collected using standard protocols and 16S rRNA gene V3–V4 region amplicon sequencing was performed to identify the bacterial communities prevalent in the rhizosphere. A total of 1,74,324 quality checked reads were assembled into contigs and were analyzed using QIIME2 and MetaG server to reveal the abundance of Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria. The data is available at the NCBI - Sequence Read Archive with accession number: SRR15652592. This is the first report of the rhizospheric microbiome belonging to this plant from the Indian Sundarbans.