Subject	Microbiology: Microbiome
Specific subject area	Metagenomics
Type of data	Figures, Tables, and Fastq files
How the data were acquired	Illumina MiSeq platform
Data format	Raw and Analyzed
Description of data collection	Five root samples of the Vinh Linh local variety of the black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) plant were collected from five gardens (a 5-year-old black pepper field) in the Central Highlands and then combined into one representative sample. Total DNA was extracted from the sample, and the 16S rRNA gene metagenomic sequencing was performed using the Illumina MiSeq platform
Data source location	Commune/District/Province: Ea Tieu/Cu Kuin, Dak Lak Region: The Central Highlands Country: Vietnam Latitude and longitude coordinates for collected samples: 12°35′12.18′′N,108°04′53.26′′E
Data accessibility	Data are available at the NCBI with Bioproject PRJNA796696 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/study/?acc=PRJNA796696)