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Plant Malus domestica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Apple
How this plant is used
Food

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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
N-PENTYL-OCTANOATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-PROPANOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-PROPIONIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEOXANTHIN 2 Fruit Epidermis not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Fruit 1.0 7.0 -0.72 Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL 3 Fruit 0.0 0.6 -0.58 Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN 0 Fruit 280.0 4000.0 -0.74 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
NONACOSANE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONENOIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCT-CIS-5-ENE-1,3-DIOL 0 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCT-CIS-5-ENE-1,3-DIOL-GLYCOSIDE 0 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTA-CIS-3-CIS-5-DIEN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTA-CIS-3-CIS-5-DIEN-1-OL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTA-TRANS-3-CIS-5-DIEN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTA-TRANS-3-CIS-5-DIEN-1-OL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSANOL 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTANE-1,3-DIOL 0 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTANE-1,3-DIOL-GLYCOSIDE 0 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTENOIC-ACID 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 *