Plant Triticum aestivum (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Wheat

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
ALPHA-AMYLASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CARBOXYLASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-DIHYDROXYCAROTENE	0	Seed	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Oil	1508.0	2170.0	2.51	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Seed	not available	1271.0	3.31	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TRITICENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TRITISTEROL	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIALYASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Seed	4000.0	12000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Seed	not available	0.1	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	4000.0	12000.0	-1.08	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE-SYNTHESASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Seed	5106.0	5957.0	-1.48	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYLASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	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
Antitumor (Colon)	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colorectal)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Mouth)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	6	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Antitympanitic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiulcer	15	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiUTI	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.