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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Morus alba (Moraceae)

Common Names
Sang-Pai-Pi; White Mulberry
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
2,4,4',6-TETRAHYDROXYBENZOPHENONE 0 Wood *
3,2',4'-TRIHYDROXYDIHYDROSTILBENE 0 Wood *
3,4'-DIHYDROXYDIHYDROSTILBENE 0 Wood *
5,7-DIHYDROXYCHROMONE 4 Plant *
6,3',5'-TRIHYDROXY-2-PHENYLBENZOFURAN 0 Wood *
A-BETA-HEXENAL 0 Leaf *
ACETIC-ACID 16 Leaf *
ACETONE 3 Leaf *
ADENINE 11 Leaf *
ALBAFURAN-C 0 Plant *
ALBANIN-F 0 Plant *
ALBANIN-G 0 Plant *
ALBANOL-A 2 Plant *
ALBANOL-B 0 Plant *
ALPHA-AMYRIN 10 Root Bark *
ALPHA-BETA-DIMONTANY-GLYCEROL 0 Plant *
ALUMINUM(AL2O3) 0 Leaf 8000.0 18000.0 *
ARACHIDONIC-ACID 12 Seed *
ARSENIC 2 Root Bark 0.1 -0.60 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 50.0 1040.0 -0.22 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Oviposition-Stimulant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 2 *
Paralytic 1 *
Parasiticide 3 *
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Perfumery 11 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic 1 *
Pesticide 48 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Photoactive 1 *
Phytoalexin 4 Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
Phytohormonal 1 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.