Plant Pisum sativum (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pea

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
L-THREO-ALPHA-AMINO-BETA-CHLORO-BUTYRIC-ACID	0	Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Seed	0.0	0.5	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
LECITHIN	20	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEGUMIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEGUMINELIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	2280.0	22552.0	3.71	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Seed	3230.0	15279.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Shoot	not available	35.0	-1.17	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	1750.0	7418.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	1520.0	7190.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Fruit	2020.0	19980.0	4.11	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Seed	3170.0	14995.0	0.39	Duke, 1992 *
M-XYLOHYDROQUINONE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	218.0	2591.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	2200.0	3700.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	319.0	1700.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Seed	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
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.