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Plant Morus alba (Moraceae)

Common Names
Sang-Pai-Pi; White Mulberry
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
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUTATHIONE 7 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL 18 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXALDEHYDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXEN-(2)-AL-(1) 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYRESVERATROL 0 Wood not available 20000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
INOKOSTERONE 5 Leaf not available 10.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Fruit 19.0 247.0 0.45 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Root Bark 70.0 290.0 0.08 Duke, 1992 *
IRON-OXIDE(FE2O3) 0 Leaf 500.0 2600.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-ALCOHOL 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYRALDEHYDE 1 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYRIC-ACID 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCETIN 3 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KUWANON-A 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KUWANON-B 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KUWANON-C 1 Root Bark 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
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 Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide 3 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 48 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Photoactive 1 Duke, 1992 *
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.