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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Glycine max (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Soybean
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
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 4.4 14.0 1.11 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMIN 31 Seed 4.0 10.0 0.81 *
THIAMIN 31 Sprout Seedling 1.9 17.0 0.08 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THREONEOPTERIN 0 Seed 0.0 *
THREONINE 4 Seed 15850.0 17330.0 2.06 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THREONINE 4 Shoot *
TIRUCALLA-7-24-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed *
TIRUCALLOL 0 Seed *
TITANIUM 0 Seed 0.0 12.0 -0.22 *
TRANS-ACONITIC-ACID 2 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Plant *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Fruit 3.7 16.2 -1.00 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Leaf 10.5 63.2 -1.00 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Plant *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Root 1.1 -0.90 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Seed 19.7 71.8 -0.45 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Stem 1.5 7.6 -1.00 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Tissue Culture *
TRYPOTPHAN 0 Seed 5300.0 5795.0 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 5300.0 5795.0 0.84 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic 1 *
Oviposition-Stimulant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant 1 *
Oxidant 3 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P21-Inducer 1 *
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 2 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 3 *
Paralytic 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Parasiticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 2 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 11 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peroxidase-Inhibitor 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide 75 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor 1 *