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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Hordeum vulgare (Poaceae)

Common Names
Barley; Barleygrass
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
PLASTOQUINONE 9 0 Root *
PLASTOQUINONE 9 0 Sprout Seedling *
PLASTOQUINONE 9 0 Tissue Culture *
POLYSACCHARIDE 0 Seed *
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 19880.0 44000.0 1.55 Jim Duke's personal files.*
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 1600.0 9900.0 -0.23 *
POTASSIUM 14 Sprout Seedling 6130.0 -1.62 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
POTASSIUM 14 Stem 25000.0 1.03 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-3 2 Seed *
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-3 0 Seed *
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-3-DIMER 0 Seed *
PROLINE 0 Root 57.0 219.0 -1.16 *
PROPELARGONIDIN-DIMER 0 Seed *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf *
PROTEIN 0 Plant 25000.0 344000.0 1.40 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PROTEIN 0 Root *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 82000.0 212000.0 -0.19 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PROTEIN 0 Stem 89000.0 -0.71 *
PROTOCHLOROPHYLL 0 Leaf *
PUTRESCINE 0 Sprout Seedling Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Irritant 3 *
Juvabional 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 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 *
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipotropic 3 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 9 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 1 *
Lubricant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 1 Gawron, A., Gorski*, G., Glowniak**, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.
Lymphokinetic 1 *
MAO-Inhibitor 1 *
Memorigenic 2 *
Memory-Enhancer 1 Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metal-Chelator 3 McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.