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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
CHOLESTEROL 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Root not available 0.2 -0.41 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Seed 134.0 1712.0 0.04 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Shoot not available 0.3 -0.77 Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM 24 Plant 0.9 3.9 -0.50 Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Hull Husk not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Petiole not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COBALT 2 Plant 0.4 1.7 -0.42 Duke, 1992 *
COBALT 2 Seed 0.0 0.3 -0.19 Jim Duke's personal files.*
COLAMINE 0 Seed not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
COPPER 12 Plant not available 4.0 -1.11 Jim Duke's personal files.*
COPPER 12 Seed 2.4 25.7 0.99 Jim Duke's personal files.*
CYSTINE 2 Seed 1000.0 5000.0 1.29 Jim Duke's personal files.*
DAUCOSTEROL 5 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-5-AVENASTEROL 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-7-AVENASTEROL 1 Seed 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.
DELTA-7-STIGMASTEROL 0 Seed not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DELTA-AMINO-LEVULINIC-ACID 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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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 *