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Plant Lycopersicon esculentum (Solanaceae)

Common Names
Tomato
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
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf not available 5500.0 0.10 Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Plant not available 0.1 -0.87 Booth, S. L., Suttie, J. W. 1998. Dietary intake and adequacy of vitamin K. J. Nutrition, 128(5): 785-788.
PHYTOENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOENE-1,2-OXIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOFLUENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 70.0 1157.0 0.27 Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
POLYGALACTURONASE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 780.0 58800.0 3.62 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf not available 47000.0 0.74 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 170.0 2810.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Root not available 541.0 -0.94 Duke, 1992 *
PROLYCOPENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROPANOLS 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID 6 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 8790.0 148935.0 0.53 Duke, 1992 *
PROTOPECTIN 0 Fruit 11700.0 24200.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRUVIC-ACID 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-RHAMNOSIDE 1 Fruit not available not available 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
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insectifuge 14 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge? 1 Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile 4 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insulinogenic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist 1 Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 17 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
JNK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 5 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Keratolytic 2 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 2 Duke, 1992 *