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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Malus domestica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Apple
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ROSEOSIDE 0 Leaf Winterhalter, P., Guldner, A., Guldner, A., Jakob, U., Schreier, P. 1994. 3-hydroxy-5,6-epoxy-beta-ionyl-beta-d-glucopyranoside from Malus domestica leaves. Nat. Prod. Lett., 4(1): 57-60.
RUBIDIUM 0 Fruit 0.3 10.0 -0.68 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
RUTIN 87 Fruit *
RUTIN 87 Fruit Epidermis *
RUTIN 87 Fruit Juice *
RUTIN 87 Leaf 0.0 8885.0 -0.45 *
RUTIN 87 Pericarp *
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 0.8 60.0 -0.16 *
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 -0.39 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 80.0 497.0 -1.11 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Fruit 580.0 3610.0 -0.30 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SHIKIMIC-ACID 14 Plant *
SILICON 4 Fruit 0.0 70.0 -0.38 *
SILVER 3 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.50 *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Fruit *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 0.0 133.0 -0.17 *
SORBITOL 11 Leaf *
SPERMIDINE 1 Bud Wang, S. Y., Faust, M. 1994. Changes in Polyamine Content During Dormancy in Flower Buds of 'Anna' Apple. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci., 119(1): 70-73.
SPERMINE 1 Bud Wang, S. Y., Faust, M. 1994. Changes in Polyamine Content During Dormancy in Flower Buds of 'Anna' Apple. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci., 119(1): 70-73.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 70.0 435.0 -0.25 *
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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 *
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 *
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
PKC-Inhibitor 1 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 *
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 *
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 *
Prooxidant 5 *
Propecic 5 *
Prostaglandigenic 5 *
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 *