Abstract
Microgreens are becoming more popular in gastronomy, especially as a salad ingredient. In this study, two plant species belonging to the cabbage family were grown as microgreens, namely red cabbage and broccoli. Three different light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were used in the experiment, blue, red, and combined (blue:red) lighting. The experiment was carried out by 118 µmol-2 s-1total Photosynthetic Photon Flux (PPF), LED lighting was applied for 16 hours a day. Blue light primarily stimulates leaf growth, while red light promotes flowering. In our experiment, blue and combined lighting favorably affected plant development, yield (~3000 g m-2), chlorophyll-a (~8.0 mg g-1), and carotenoid content (9.0 mg g-1). However, the red light resulted in reduced harvest yields (~2200 g m-2), chlorophyll-a (~6.0 mg g-1), and carotenoid content (~7.0 mg g-1). The development of red cabbage was favorably influenced by the blue spectrum, while the combined spectrum favorably influenced the development of broccoli.
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Claim · model-written summary
Blue lighting favored microgreen development.
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e0“blue and combined lighting favorably affected plant development, yield (~3000 g m-2), chlorophyll-a (~8.0 mg g-1), and carotenoid content (9.0 mg g-1)”
e1“red cabbage and broccoli”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined lighting favored microgreen development.
- Taxon
- broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italicae1 - Treatment
- combined lightinge0
- Outcome
- plant developmente0
- Direction
- favorably affectede0
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Verbatim
e0“blue and combined lighting favorably affected plant development, yield (~3000 g m-2), chlorophyll-a (~8.0 mg g-1), and carotenoid content (9.0 mg g-1)”
e1“red cabbage and broccoli”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue and combined lighting yielded about 3000 g m-2.
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e0“blue and combined lighting favorably affected plant development, yield (~3000 g m-2)”
e1“red cabbage and broccoli”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue and combined lighting produced about 8.0 mg g-1 chlorophyll-a.
- Taxon
- broccoliBrassica oleracea var. italicae1
- Treatment
- blue and combined lightinge0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll-ae0
- Value
- ~8.0 mg g-1e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“blue and combined lighting favorably affected plant development, yield (~3000 g m-2), chlorophyll-a (~8.0 mg g-1)”
e1“red cabbage and broccoli”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue and combined lighting produced 9.0 mg g-1 carotenoids.
- Taxon
- broccoliBrassica oleracea var. italicae1
- Treatment
- blue and combined lightinge0
- Outcome
- carotenoid contente0
- Value
- 9.0 mg g-1e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“blue and combined lighting favorably affected plant development, yield (~3000 g m-2), chlorophyll-a (~8.0 mg g-1), and carotenoid content (9.0 mg g-1)”
e1“red cabbage and broccoli”
Claim · model-written summary
Red lighting reduced harvest yield to about 2200 g m-2.
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e0“red light resulted in reduced harvest yields (~2200 g m-2)”
e1“red cabbage and broccoli”
Claim · model-written summary
Red lighting reduced chlorophyll-a to about 6.0 mg g-1.
- Taxon
- broccoliBrassica oleracea var. italicae1
- Treatment
- red lighte0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll-ae0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- ~6.0 mg g-1e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“red light resulted in reduced harvest yields (~2200 g m-2), chlorophyll-a (~6.0 mg g-1)”
e1“red cabbage and broccoli”
Claim · model-written summary
Red lighting reduced carotenoid content to about 7.0 mg g-1.
- Taxon
- broccoliBrassica oleracea var. italicae1
- Treatment
- red lighte0
- Outcome
- carotenoid contente0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- ~7.0 mg g-1e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“red light resulted in reduced harvest yields (~2200 g m-2), chlorophyll-a (~6.0 mg g-1), and carotenoid content (~7.0 mg g-1)”
e1“red cabbage and broccoli”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue spectrum favored red cabbage development.
- Taxon
- red cabbagee0
- Treatment
- blue spectrume0
- Outcome
- development of red cabbagee0
- Direction
- favorably influencede0
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e0“The development of red cabbage was favorably influenced by the blue spectrum”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined spectrum favored broccoli development.
- Taxon
- broccoliBrassica oleracea var. italicae0
- Treatment
- combined spectrume0
- Outcome
- development of broccolie0
- Direction
- favorably influencede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the combined spectrum favorably influenced the development of broccoli”
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