betydata

Public Data from the BETYdb Database

betydata is an R data package providing offline access to public data from BETYdb (Biofuel Ecophysiological Traits and Yields database). It enables reproducible analyses of plant traits, crop yields, and supporting metadata without requiring database connectivity.

At a Glance

Table 1: Dataset summary

Metric	Value
Total observations	43,532
Unique traits	298
Plant species	70,741
Research sites	23173
Literature citations	985
Tables	16

Installation

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("PecanProject/betydata")

Quick Start

library(betydata)
library(dplyr)

# The primary table -- key columns first, IDs last
traitsview

# Bioenergy crop observations
bioenergy_genera <- c("Miscanthus", "Panicum", "Populus", "Salix", "Saccharum")
traitsview |>
  filter(genus %in% bioenergy_genera) |>
  count(genus, sort = TRUE)

Guides

Guide	Description
Getting Started	Package overview, data model, and key concepts
Common Analyses	Practical analysis patterns with dplyr
PFTs & Priors	Plant Functional Types and Bayesian prior distributions
Manuscript Reproduction	Reproduce key analyses from LeBauer et al. (2018)

Data License

Data: ODC-By-1.0 | Code: BSD-3-Clause

Citation

LeBauer, D. S., et al. (2018). BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second-generation bioenergy feedstock production. GCB Bioenergy. doi:10.1111/gcbb.12420