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Data From: Habitat type and host grazing regimen influence the soil microbial diversity and communities within potential biting midge larval habitats

    Culicoides biting midges are important vectors of diverse microbes such as viruses, protozoa, and nematodes that cause diseases in wild and domestic animals. To investigate the role of microbial communities in midge larval habitat utilization in the wild, we characterized microbial communities (bacterial, protistan, fungal and metazoan) in soils from disturbed (bison and cattle grazed) and undisturbed (non-grazed) pond and spring potential midge larval habitats. We evaluated the influence of habitat and grazing disturbance and their interaction on microbial communities, diversity, presence of midges, and soil properties.

    Data from: Grain inoculated with different growth stages of the fungus, Aspergillus flavus, affect the close-range foraging behavior by a primary stored product pest, Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

      Our goals with this dataset were to 1) isolate, culture, and identify two fungal life stages of Aspergillus flavus, 2) characterize the volatile emissions from grain inoculated by each fungal morphotype, and 3) understand how microbially-produced volatile organic compounds (MVOCs) from each fungal morphotype affect foraging, attraction, and preference by S. oryzae. This dataset includes that derived from headspace collection coupled with GC-MS, where we found the sexual life stage of A. flavus had the most unique emissions of MVOCs compared to the other semiochemical treatments.

      Systemic production of grapevine phenolics in response to mixed infections by wood-colonizing fungi

        This data is collected from two experiments, one in 2018 and one in 2019, that left untreated or inoculated grapevines with Diplodia seriata, Neofusicoccum parvum, Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, or mock-inoculated, and then two months later inoculated with one of the three pathogens. Grapevine stem phenolic levels were measured at the time of the second inoculation on a different branch, and comparisons were made between pathogen infected plants or those left non-inoculated. Lesion sizes of the second inoculations also were compared to examine the effects on the first inoculation on these.

        Data from: Attraction, mobility, and preference by Lasioderma serricorne (F.) (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) to microbially-mediated volatile emissions by two species of fungi in stored grain

          Our goals were to 1) isolate, and culture two fungal morphotypes, 2) characterize the volatile emissions from grain inoculated by each fungal morphotype (Aspergillus flavus or Fusarium spp.) compared to uninoculated and sanitized grain, and 3) understand how MVOCs from each morphotype affects mobility, attraction, and preference by L. serricorne.

          Data from: Genetic mapping and QTL analysis for peanut smut resistance

            This collection contains supplementary information for the manuscript “Genetic mapping and QTL analysis for peanut smut resistance”, which reports the genetic map and quantitative trait loci associated with resistance to peanut smut, a disease caused by the fungus *Thecaphora frezii*. The information includes genotyping data of a 103 recombinant inbred line (RIL) population {susceptible *Arachis hypogaea* subsp. *hypogaea* × resistant synthetic amphidiploid [(*A. correntina* × *A. cardenasii*) × *A. batizocoi*]4×} and parental lines, generated with the Axiom_Arachis2 SNP array.