Names
No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.
Where it is recorded
This is a group, not a taxon: Group, not a taxon: baby greens are young salad greens harvested before maturity, the stage after microgreens (lettuce, arugula, kale, mizuna, mustard, pak choi, spinach, beet and others). Indoors, a 15-18 day crop cycle (Purdue Mitchell lab: microgreens 10-11, baby 15-18, teen 21-23, full leafy 28-30 days). No taxon_species_id or taxon_genus_id by design.. It has no single record in the species lists.
Growth stages
- Growth: about 18 days (harvest at 15-18 days)
What the sources say it wants
Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and who published it: the document (linked to the publisher's own copy), its authors, publisher and year, and the page or table the number is on. Where another source gives the same measure, it is listed with its own number. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.
Whole cycle
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light | Daily light integral at the canopy (mol/m2/d) | 11.5 to 17.3 | derived: Baby Greens: The Tender Leafies! (OptimIA University lecture 6.20). Fatemeh Sheibani, Michael Gildersleeve and Cary Mitchell. OptimIA University, Purdue University, 2023. p.5, Environmental Inputs for Baby-Green Production (slide 9). Calculated: DLI = PPFD × 3600 s/ |
| Light | Photoperiod (h) | 16 | published: Baby Greens: The Tender Leafies! (OptimIA University lecture 6.20). Fatemeh Sheibani, Michael Gildersleeve and Cary Mitchell. OptimIA University, Purdue University, 2023. p.5, Environmental Inputs for Baby-Green Production (slide 9) |
| Air | Air temperature, day (°C) | 20 to 25 | published: Baby Greens: The Tender Leafies! (OptimIA University lecture 6.20). Fatemeh Sheibani, Michael Gildersleeve and Cary Mitchell. OptimIA University, Purdue University, 2023. p.5, Environmental Inputs for Baby-Green Production (slide 9) |
| Air | Air temperature, night (°C) | 20 to 25 | published: Baby Greens: The Tender Leafies! (OptimIA University lecture 6.20). Fatemeh Sheibani, Michael Gildersleeve and Cary Mitchell. OptimIA University, Purdue University, 2023. p.5, Environmental Inputs for Baby-Green Production (slide 9) |
| Air | CO2 (ppm) | 800 to 1000 | published: Baby Greens: The Tender Leafies! (OptimIA University lecture 6.20). Fatemeh Sheibani, Michael Gildersleeve and Cary Mitchell. OptimIA University, Purdue University, 2023. p.5, Environmental Inputs for Baby-Green Production (slide 9) |
| Air | Relative humidity (%) | 70 to 80 | published: Baby Greens: The Tender Leafies! (OptimIA University lecture 6.20). Fatemeh Sheibani, Michael Gildersleeve and Cary Mitchell. OptimIA University, Purdue University, 2023. p.5, Environmental Inputs for Baby-Green Production (slide 9) |
Keystone status
Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.
Generated 2026-11-04 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.