Updated project metadata. We previously found that rhizobia-inoculation enhanced the soybean's salt tolerance; the transcription factor (TF) GmMYB173 and its downstream gene GmCHS5 dictate soybean’s flavonoid metabolism in response to this stress. For revealing the mechanism of the enhancement, quantitative phosphoproteomics and metabonomic approaches were used to identify phosphoproteins and metabolites that dominant the common pathway between salinity and rhizobia induced response in soybean roots.