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
DIHYDROERGOSTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERGOSTEROL	5	Seed	not available	12.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTERASE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-BETA-D-FRUCTOFURANOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	10000.0	30000.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	8000.0	39000.0	-1.19	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Seed	15.0	32.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Plant	23300.0	421000.0	1.47	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	3000.0	62000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Seed	0.0	0.9	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Seed	not available	600.0	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSYLRAFFINOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADUSEN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-DIHYDROSITOSTEROLFERULIC-ACID-ESTER	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL	14	Oil	39.0	527.0	0.59	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Seed	2.0	4.0	-1.27	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLINS	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLIADIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Seed	60000.0	100000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCODIFRUCTOSE	0	Seed	not available	4100.0	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
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant	1	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	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	32	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	2	Merck 11th Edition
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *
Progesteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).