Plant Prunus cerasus (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sour Cherry

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
2,3-DIHYDROWOGONIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,3-DIHYDROWOGONIN-7-MONO-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HEPTANONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-MALIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXYMETHYLPROLINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIN	12	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ALANINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Fruit	440.0	3168.0	0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	1.3	9.4	-0.98	Duke, 1992 *
AMYGDALIN	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTIRRHININ	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	2400.0	3200.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AROMADENDRIN	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AROMADENDRINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	70.0	873.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	4000.0	48000.0	-0.22	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
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	3	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 *
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	4	Martindale's 29th
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *