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Plant Malus domestica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Apple
How this plant is used
Food

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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
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Pericarp not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Pt not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(+)-EPICATECHIN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Leaf 150.0 900.0 -0.68 Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Pericarp not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(Z)-HEX-2-ENAL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
-D-GLUCITOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1,3,3,-TRIMETHYL-DIOXA-2,7-BICYCLO(2,2,1)HEPTANE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-BUTANOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-DECYL-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-MONO-LINOLEIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-MONOOLEIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-NONYL-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-OCTYL-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Pheromone 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pigment 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 Duke, 1992 *
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative 3 Merck 11th Edition
Progestational 1 Duke, 1992 *
Progesteronigenic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant 5 Duke, 1992 *
Propecic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 4 Duke, 1992 *