I was doing some research on cattails over the holiday weekend and came across this excellent tool for mining the scientific literature:
http://authormapper.com/
I found a ton of papers on yield, response to different mowing/harvesting techniques, ecology and competition with other species, conversion to ethanol, plant tissue culture, etc. etc. etc.
About 80% of the time, there was a link to the full article, but sometimes only the abstract.
945 citations on cattails
3394 citations on olives
1039 on
black locust tree