Chamaecrista fasciculata Survival and Biomass in Response to Microbe Stress History and Contemporary Stress, 2018-2019

This dataset includes Chamaecrista fasciculata biomass and survival data collected as part of a greenhouse experiment that took place at Indiana University in 2018. Rhizosphere soil was collected from Chamaecrista fasciculata plants at the end of a field experiment in which plants were treated with four stress treatments: salt, herbicide, herbivory, and no stress. These field soils were used to inoculate a greenhouse experiment in which Chamaecrista fasciculata individuals from 50 manternal families were treated with these same four stress treatments in a full factorial design (4 microbe histories x 4 contemporary stress environments), plus a sterile microbial control treatment. We measured the days to first flower, noted when plants never flowered (i.e., did not survive to flower), and measured aboveground biomass.