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Plant Pisum sativum (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Pea
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
INDOLYL-3-ACETALDEHYDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL 8 Seed not available 1500.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
IODINE 12 Seed not available 0.0 -0.28 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Fruit 21.0 206.0 0.29 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Plant not available 400.0 -0.27 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Seed 14.0 90.0 -0.28 Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Fruit 1610.0 15925.0 3.69 Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Seed 1950.0 9224.0 -0.16 Duke, 1992 *
ISOXAZOLIN-5-ONE-2-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Tissue Culture not available 500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-COUMAROYL-TRIGLUCOSIDE) 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-FERULOYL-TRIGLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-TRIGLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Fruit 420.0 4154.0 0.75 Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Seed 810.0 3832.0 -0.80 Duke, 1992 *
L-(+)-2-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-(+)-ACETYLHOMOSERINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-(+)-HOMOSERINE 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-(-)-HOMOSERINE 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
Phytoalexin 4 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
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 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-sensitizer 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Poultice 1 Martindale's 29th
Preservative 2 Merck 11th Edition
Previtamin-A 1 Duke, 1992 *
Progesteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Prooxidant 7 Duke, 1992 *
Propecic 6 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic 4 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 3 Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide 2 Duke, 1992 *
PTK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 4 Yannai, S., Day, A. J., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1998. Characterization of Flavonoids as Monofunctional or Bifunctional Inducers of Quinone Reductase in Murine Hepatoma Cell Lines. Food Chem Toxicol, 36(8): 623-630.