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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Glycine max (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Soybean
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SOYBEAN-SAPONIN-AB 0 Seed *
SOYBEAN-SAPONIN-AG 0 Hypocotyl *
SOYBEAN-SAPONIN-BA 0 Hypocotyl *
SOYBEAN-SAPONIN-BA 0 Seed *
SOYBEAN-SAPONIN-BB 0 Hypocotyl *
SOYBEAN-SAPONIN-BB 0 Seed *
SOYBEAN-SAPONIN-BEA 0 Hypocotyl 40.0 *
SOYBEAN-SAPONIN-BG 0 Hypocotyl *
SPERMIDINE 1 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SPERMIDINE 1 Seed *
SPERMINE 1 Seed *
SQUALENE 10 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SQUALENE 10 Seed Oil *
STACHYOSE 1 Seed 22300.0 51050.0 2.04 *
STARCH 5 Seed 10000.0 -1.22 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
STARCH 5 Tissue Culture *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 4320.0 7785.0 -0.40 *
STIGMAST-4-EN-3-6-DIONE 0 Tissue Culture *
STIGMAST-4-EN-3-ONE 1 Tissue Culture *
STIGMASTA-4,6-DIEN-3-ONE 0 Seed *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insecticide 1 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Insectifuge 14 *
Insectiphile 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulin-Sparing 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinic 2 *
Insulinogenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 4 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 9 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 4 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 *
Keratolytic 3 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Larvistat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 8 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.