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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Citrus limon (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Lemon
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Petiole 0.0 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Essential Oil 10.0 -0.48 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Petiole 1.5 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Essential Oil 20.0 -0.59 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Petiole 2.0 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil 40.0 500.0 -0.56 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit Essent. Oil 7000.0 -0.76 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil 500.0 2000.0 -0.74 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Pericarp Essent. Oil 5000.0 14000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Petiole 90.0 *
ALPHA-SINENSAL 0 Petiole 0.0 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Essential Oil 70.0 -0.78 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Petiole 8.0 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil 6.0 50.0 -0.77 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 4000.0 125000.0 1.66 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Pericarp Essent. Oil 4000.0 73000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Irritant 18 *
Juvabional 4 *
Keratitigenic 1 *
Lactagogue 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-91.
Larvicide 3 Berenbaum, M. R., The natives knew, Chemtech, (May), 1990, 275-279.
Larvistat 2 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative 5 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipolytic 6 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 8 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 2 Martindale's 29th
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lypolytic 1 Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
MAO-A-Inhibitor 1 *
MAO-Inhibitor 2 *
MAPK-Inhibitor 1 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer 1 *
MDR-Inhibitor 2 Critchfield, J. W., Welsh, C. J., Phang, J. M., Yeh, G. C. 1994. Modulation of Adriamycin Accumulation and Efflux by Flavonoids in HCT-15 Colon Cells. Activation of P-Glycoprotein as a Putative Mechanism. Biochem Pharmacol, 48(7): 1437-1445.