What other species are good biofuel crops?

[dlebauer]

@phenolphtalein

How might you answer the following ...

Given the Miscanthus and Switchgrass yield data that @sidewallme has used in his analysis, plus any other data in the yields table, determine:

Are there species that haven't been grown in agronomic trials (i.e. we don't have yield data in betydb.org/yields.csv) that might be good candidates for high yielding crops?

Notes:

• in the plants table (betydb.org/species.csv) is full of categorical variables - for all species in plants.usda.gov
• there are also many sparse rows that we have created, mostly for poplar and willow hybrids (bred across species) and non-US plants.

[djaiswal]

@phenolphtalein @dlebauer It is good to look into other species but this is more of a method study ( you are comparing three different modeling approach). Perhaps it will be best to remain focused on methods using just one species (Miscanthus) for this study. If we conclude that one of the three method is best then we can do a second study including multiple species and the best method.