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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

 Genista tinctoria (Fabaceae)

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Common name(s)
Dyer's Broom
How used
Medicinal

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# Activity Chemical Name Part Low PPM High PPM StdDev *Reference
0 (-)-(7R,9R,11R-7-N-METHYL-11(PROP-2-ENYL)CYTISINE Shoot -- -- -- *
0 (7R,9R,11R-7-N-METHYL-11(PROP-2-ENYL)CYTISINE Shoot -- -- -- *
0 ALKALOIDS Shoot -- 3000.0 -0.41 *
11 ANAGYRINE Shoot -- -- -- *
10 CYTISINE Shoot -- -- -- *
32 DAIDZEIN Shoot -- -- -- *
0 EO Shoot -- 300.0 -0.93 *
81 GENISTEIN Flower -- -- -- *
0 GENISTEIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE Plant -- -- -- Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
3 GENISTIN Plant -- -- -- *
0 ISOPARTEINE Shoot -- -- -- *
3 LUPANINE Shoot -- -- -- *
0 LUTEOLIN-5,7-DIGLUCOSIDE Plant -- -- -- *
0 LUTEOLIN-5-GLUCOSIDE Plant -- -- -- *
0 LUTEOLIN-7-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE Plant -- -- -- *
3 MUCILAGE Plant -- -- -- *
0 N-METHYL-CYTISINE Shoot -- -- -- *
35 TANNIN Plant -- -- -- *
0 THERMOPSINE Leaf -- -- -- *
0 TINCTORINE Plant -- -- -- *
*Unless otherwise noted all references are to Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press.