bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/705806; this version posted July 17, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Evaluation of 21 Brassica microgreens growth and nutritional profile grown under diffrenet 2 red, blue and green LEDs combination 3 Khaled Y. Kamal1,2*, Ahmed A. El-Tantawy3, Diaa Abdel Moneim4, Asmaa Abdel Salam1, Naglaa 4 Qabil1, Salwa, M. A. I. Ash-shormillesy1, Ahmed Attia1, Mohamed A. S. Ali5, Raúl Herranz6, 5 Mohamed A. El-Esawi7,8, Amr A. Nassrallah9 6 7 1Agronomy Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharqia, 44511, 8 Egypt 9 2Department of Molecular Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and 10 Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. 11 3Ornamental Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, 12613, 12 Egypt 13 4Department of Plant production (Genetic branch), Faculty of Environmental and Agricultural 14 Sciences, Arish University, Egypt 15 5Plant Pathology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Sharqia, 44511, Egypt 16 6Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain 17 7Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, 31527 Tanta, Egypt 18 8Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 19 9Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt 20 21 *Corresponding author: 22 23 Dr. Khaled Youssef Kamal 24 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6909-8056 25 Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University 26 Al Wehda Al Zraaia St, AZ Zagazig, 44519, Egypt 27 Tel: +20 55 2245274 Fax: +20 55 2221688 28 Email:
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