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
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	0.0	0.2	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-TRITISTEROL	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Root	not available	82.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Shoot	not available	1640.0	2.22	Duke, 1992 *
BIOTIN	4	Seed	not available	216.0	0.44	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Seed	1.0	16.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Seed	not available	0.3	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Seed	3.0	4.0	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	900.0	10400.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	100.0	4100.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRINIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	not available	610000.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENE	0	Plant	97.0	953.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CATALASE	1	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE	7	Plant	670.0	3400.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE	7	Seed	300.0	1800.0	2.96	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Seed	not available	5.0	-0.62	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
Juvabional	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic	3	Martindale's 28th
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	7	Duke, 1992 *
Leptingenic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic	1	LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Lipotropic	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	5	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.