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Plant Laurus nobilis (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Bayleaf; Sweet Bay; Grecian Laurel; Bay Laurel; Laurel; Bay
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
ALPHA-GUAIENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-GUAIENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GURJUNENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-MUUROLENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 100700.0 1.19 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Leaf 0.0 120.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Bark not available 27.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Flower not available 0.0 -0.85 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 93000.0 0.38 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf not available 125.0 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil 1300.0 76600.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Wood not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf 14.0 300.0 -0.16 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 58500.0 1.77 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf 140.0 1380.0 1.83 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 4000.0 92700.0 1.01 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 38000.0 71400.0 1.40 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
Termiticide 4 Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Testosterone-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 4 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tracheorelaxant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 7 Duke, 1992 *
Trematodicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Trichomonicide 10 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypanocide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Trypsin-Enhancer 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 6 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.