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Plant Avena sativa (Poaceae)

Common Names
Oats
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NONAN-1-AL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-OL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NUATIGENIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
O'-RHAMNOSYL-8-C-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYLGENKWANIN 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
OCT-1-EN-3-OL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCT-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-AL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-OL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTANAL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ORGOTHIONENINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
OXALIC-ACID 9 Plant not available 400.0 -0.53 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Plant 3.5 45.3 0.91 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Seed 4.4 28.3 1.21 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PECTIN 24 Plant not available 800.0 -0.77 Wealth of India.
PENTANE-1,3,4-TRICARBOXYLIC-ACID 0 Hull Husk not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSANS 0 Hull Husk 320000.0 360000.0 1.00 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHAEOPHORBIDE 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 4000.0 10000.0 -0.18 Jim Duke's personal files.*
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 12 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 21 Martindale's 29th
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 2 Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Gastroprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Goitrogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
GST-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hematopoietic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 4 Martindale's 29th
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *