N-Caffeoylputrescine has antioxidant activity.

Isowighteone, a compound that is not naturally produced in this species, accumulated by medicago truncatula hairy roots expressing LaPT1, indicates a strategy for metabolic engineering of novel antimicrobial compounds in legumes; it may have antimicrobial activity against fungal pathogens of plants.

Pinostrobin chalcone, a chalcone analog isolated from the leguminous plant, Mucuna pruriens, exhibits anticancer activity with an IC50 value of 20.42±2.23 μg/mL against MDA-MB-231 and 22.51±0.42 μg/mL against the HT-29 colon cancer cell line.