Metagenome assembly and annotation of data from the rhizosphere soil of drought-stressed CRN-3505 maize cultivar

This data article reports shotgun metagenomic data obtained from drought-stressed maize rhizosphere through the Illumina Novaseq platform, utilizing the KBase online platform. 428,339,852 high-quality post-sequences were obtained, showcasing an average GC content of 65.45 %. The investigation, conducted at Molelwane farm in Mafikeng, South Africa, identified 13 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). Functional annotation of these MAGs revealed their involvement in essential plant growth and development functions, such as sulfur and nitrogen metabolism. The dataset was deposited into the NCBI database, and MAGs accessions are available at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession number PRJNA101755. (c) 2024 North-West University. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ )