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Biological Activity Insectiphile

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List of activity chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Dosage Reference
ALLYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ALPHA-PINENE not available J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
BETA-ASARONE not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CARLINOSIDE not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CATALPOSIDE not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CIS-HEX-3-EN-1-OL not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CUCURBITACIN not available Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
CUCURBITACIN-B not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CUCURBITACIN-D not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CUCURBITACIN-E not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DIALLYL-TRISULFIDE not available LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
DIMETHYL-THIOSULFINATE not available Duke, 1992 *
DIPROPYL-DISULFIDE not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
DIPROPYL-THIOSULFINATE not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ERUCIN not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GERANIOL not available Merck 11th Edition
GERANYL-ACETATE not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GERANYL-LINALOL not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-LINALOOL not available Duke, 1992 *
List of Activity Plants.
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Plant Name Common Name Chemical Count Total Parts Per Million
Abies alba Silver-Fir 2 833
Abies balsamea Balsam Fir 2 5, 050
Abies sachalinensis Japanese Fir; Shin-Yo-Yu 1 5, 400
Abies spectabilis not available 1 515
Acacia catechu Black Cutch; Catechu 2 0
Acacia decurrens Green Wattle 1 0
Acacia farnesiana Cassie; Huisache; Sweet Acacia; Opopanax; Popinac 4 0
Acacia nilotica Babul 2 0
Achillea millefolium Yarrow; Milfoil 5 2, 072
Acinos alpinus Te de Sierra Nevada 2 37
Acinos suaveolens not available 2 9, 930
Acorus calamus Sweetflag; Calamus; Flagroot; Myrtle Flag; Sweet Calamus; Sweetroot 2 481, 680
Actinidia polygama Cat Powder; Silver Vine 1 0
Adiantum capillus-veneris Maidenhair Fern 1 0
Adonis vernalis Spring Adonis 1 0
Aeolanthus myriantha Ninde 1 0
Aesculus hippocastanum Horse Chestnut 5 181, 000
Agastache foeniculum Giant Hyssop 1 35
Agastache nepetoides not available 1 20
Agastache pallidiflora not available 1 0