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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Fagopyrum esculentum (Polygonaceae)

Common Names
Buckwheat
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
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Root *
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Tissue Culture *
(+)-EPICATECHIN 0 Tissue Culture *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Root *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Seed 26.0 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Tissue Culture *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE 7 Tissue Culture *
3,4-DIHYDROXY-2-PIPERIDINOMETHANOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
3,4-DIHYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE 0 Testa 61.0 *
ALANINE 3 Seed 6880.0 -0.70 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN 10 Seed *
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed 459.0 -0.61 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
ARACHIDONIC-ACID 12 Pollen Or Spore *
ARGININE 14 Seed 11910.0 -0.54 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
AROMADENDRIN-3-O-BETA-GALACTOSIDE 0 Seed *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 0.0 -0.34 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
ASH 0 Seed 19000.0 24000.0 -0.72 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 12000.0 -0.94 *
BEHENIC-ACID 1 Pollen Or Spore *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Seed *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Inotropic 1 *
Insecticide 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge 6 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulin-Sparing 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant 3 Merck 11th Edition
Juvabional 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide 1 *
Larvistat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 3 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipotropic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 7 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.