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Welcome to the data repository of Species-specific, accession-specific, and common responses of foliar phytohormones and morphological traits to drought and herbivory:

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-026-09091-8 Journal: BMC Plant Biology (2026)

Project Description

This project origins from the Common Chemodiversity Plasticity Experiment (CCPE) supported by the research unit FOR 3000 (project number 415496540), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). We investigated the inter- and intra-specifica responses of phytohormones and morphological traits of plants with various growth forms to single and combined environmental challenges, namely drought and herbivory. We also evaluated their phenotypic plasticity and also regulation pathways of phytohormones on morphological responses in response to environmental challenges.

This repository contains datasets, r scripts, results, the publication, and other documents associated with the published manuscript.

The project was developed following FAIR data principles to support:

  • Reproducible plant science research
  • Transparent data processing workflows
  • Reuse of experimental datasets
  • Standardized metadata integration within the NFDI4Plants ecosystem

Repository Structure

Directory Contents
/study/resource graphics of experiment design
/study/protocol description of experiment set-up
/workflow r scripts of graphics and tables in the publication
/assay/protocol protocols of morphological traits measurement and phytohormone process
/assay/dataset plant belowground, aboveground, phytohormone datasets
/publication main text and supplementary of this publication
/run graphics

Experimental Overview

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Analysis Workflow

The computational workflow includes:

  1. Data acquisition
  2. Quality control
  3. Data preprocessing
  4. Statistical analysis
  5. Visualization
  6. Interpretation of results

Scripts and reproducible workflows are available within the repository.

Reproducibility

To reproduce the analyses:

  1. Clone the repository
  2. Download required datasets
  3. Install dependencies listed in the documentation
  4. Execute scripts from the /workflow directory

Related Publication

**BMC Plant Biology ** DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-026-09091-8

Contributors

  • Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Caroline Müller
  • Data curators: Dr. Xue Xiao,Prof. Dr. Caroline Müller
  • Experimental researchers: All memebers of Research Unit For 3000
  • Bioinformatics/statistical analysts: Prof. Dr. Anke Steppuhn, Dr. Xue Xiao

License

Data and code are distributed under the repository license unless otherwise stated.

Contact

For questions regarding datasets, metadata, or workflows, please contact the corresponding authors listed in the publication.