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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
THREONINE 4 Plant not available 16000.0 1.17 Jim Duke's personal files.*
THREONINE 4 Seed 3000.0 7000.0 -0.25 Jim Duke's personal files.*
TIN 4 Plant 1.3 6.0 -1.01 Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-HEPT-2-ENAL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-NON-2-EN-1-AL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-NON-2-ENAL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN 9 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-4',7-DI-O-BETA-D-GLYCOSIDE 0 Inflorescence not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-4'-O-ALPHA-L-ARABINOSIDE 0 Inflorescence not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-4'-O-ALPHA-L-ARABINOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLYCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-7-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSYL-HEXOSIDE 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLYCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Plant not available 2000.0 -0.95 Jim Duke's personal files.*
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 0.0 3000.0 -0.11 Jim Duke's personal files.*
TYROSINE 8 Seed 2000.0 14000.0 1.45 Jim Duke's personal files.*
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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 *