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Plant Hordeum vulgare (Poaceae)

Common Names
Barley; Barleygrass
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
STARCH 5 Seed not available 620000.0 1.25 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 130.0 1430.0 -0.53 Jim Duke's personal files.*
STIGMASTEROL 12 Embryo not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Sprout Seedling not available 1010.0 1.12 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Seed not available 200.0 -1.32 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 Plant not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
THIAMIN 31 Seed 1.0 10.0 0.81 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Stem not available 13.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
TIN 4 Stem not available 12.0 0.71 Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROLS 0 Seed 56.0 71.0 -0.68 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TRANS-FERULIC-ACID 2 Plant not available not available not available Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
TRICIN 9 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Seed not available 9.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTAMINE 4 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 1000.0 3000.0 -0.11 Jim Duke's personal files.*
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE 11 Sprout Seedling not available 26.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Oxytocic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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 6 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 41 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Photoactive 2 Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Phytohormonal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Poultice 1 Martindale's 29th
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Progesteronigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).