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
CHLOROPHYLL-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL-B	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Root	not available	48.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	530.0	1800.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Shoot	not available	121.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
CITRININ	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Plant	0.0	0.2	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Seed	0.1	0.2	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Plant	2.2	4.0	-1.11	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	1.1	16.7	0.17	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Seed	1242.0	1449.0	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Seed	1242.0	4000.0	0.59	Duke, 1992 *
CYTOCHROME-C	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANAL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECHLORO-DIAZEPAM	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DHURRIN	1	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIAMINO-PROPANE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIAZEPAM	14	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIGALACTOSYL-DIGLYCERIDE	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).