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Plant Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Orange
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
XANTHOXYLETIN 1 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
XANTHOXYLETIN 1 Root Bark not available 24000.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
XANTHYLETIN 1 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
XANTHYLETIN 1 Root Bark not available 45000.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
XYLAN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE 3 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSYL-VITEXIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Fruit not available 2.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ZETA-CAROTENE 0 Fruit 0.0 2.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ZETA-CAROTENE-A 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ZETA-CAROTENE-B 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ZINC 77 Fruit 0.9 13.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM 0 Fruit 0.5 1.1 -0.50 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
P450-Inhibitor 3 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Paramecicide 1 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Parasiticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 31 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 81 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Pheromone 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor 1 Somasundaram, S., Sadique, J. 1985. Anti-hemolytic Effect of Flavonoidal Glycosides of Clerodendron inerme: An in vitro Study. Fitoterapia 57(2): 103, 1986.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phototoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phytohormonal 1 Russell, G. B., Phytochemical resources for crop protection, N. Z. J. Technol., 2, 1986, 127-134.
Piscicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *