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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Vaccinium corymbosum (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Blueberry
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
VIT-B-6 0 Fruit 0.3 2.5 -0.96 *
WATER 0 Fruit 843000.0 849000.0 0.34 *
ZINC 77 Fruit 1.0 7.0 -0.70 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
P450-2B1-Inhibitor 2 *
P450-Inducer 4 *
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Paralytic 2 Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Parasiticide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pediculicide 2 Merck 11th Edition
Perfume 3 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Perfumery 13 Merck 11th Edition
Peristaltic 1 *
Pesticide 53 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Pheromonal 1 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phytoalexin 3 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 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide 2 *