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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Vigna radiata (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Green Gram; Mungbean
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ADENOSINE-5'-MONOPHOSPHATE 0 Sprout Seedling ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ADENOSINE-DIPHOSPHATE 0 Sprout Seedling ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ADENOSINE-DIPHOSPHATE-D-RIBOSE 0 Sprout Seedling ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ADENOSINE-TRIPHOSPHATE 4 Sprout Seedling ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ALANINE 3 Seed 10500.0 11545.0 0.30 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALANINE 3 Sprout Seedling 990.0 10399.0 -0.90 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Seed 270.0 297.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Sprout Seedling 160.0 1681.0 -1.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed 117.0 135.0 -0.64 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ARGININE 14 Seed 16720.0 18383.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARGININE 14 Sprout Seedling 1970.0 20693.0 -0.62 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARSENIC 2 Seed 0.1 0.19 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 48.0 53.0 -0.31 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Sprout Seedling 113.0 1506.0 0.12 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIGEN 0 Seed 24.0 26.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASH 0 Seed 32210.0 37609.0 -0.31 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH 0 Sprout Seedling 3750.0 53025.0 -0.30 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASPARAGINE 2 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 27560.0 30302.0 0.68 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Sprout Seedling 4790.0 50315.0 -0.42 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
NF-kB-Inhibitor 2 *
NO-Genic 1 *
NO-Inhibitor 2 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 2 *
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oviposition-Stimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant 1 *
Oxidant 2 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 2 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 2 *
Parasiticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 2 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.
Perfumery 3 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic 1 *
Peroxidase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide 23 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *