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
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	400.0	7200.0	1.74	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	800.0	6800.0	0.38	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID	9	Seed	not available	48500.0	2.35	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-PHOSPHORUS	0	Seed	2370.0	3760.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTERYL-6-O-ACYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	1200.0	43500.0	1.51	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	940.0	7900.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
PROLAMINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Root	not available	173.0	-1.19	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Seed	17526.0	20447.0	1.79	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Shoot	not available	12.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	38000.0	94000.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	80000.0	380000.0	1.30	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEINASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Seed	3.0	6.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PUROTHIONIN-A	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUTRESCINE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDINE-NUCLEOTIDE-OXIDASE	0	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
Tumor-Promoter	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	7	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	12	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	6	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).