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
ORTHOFERULIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALACETIC-CARBOXYLASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Fruit	not available	111.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	17.0	25.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Seed	5.0	10.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Plant	9.7	37.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Seed	6.8	20.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
PECTINS	0	Seed	not available	10100.0	0.51	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECA-TRANS-2,CIS-4-DIENAL	0	Shoot	not available	2.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSANS	0	Seed	63000.0	83000.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
PEPTIDASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOLICS	0	Seed	831.0	1662.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Plant	4000.0	11000.0	0.71	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	7452.0	8694.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHODIESTERASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHOENOL-PYRUVATE-CARBOXYLASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHOGLUCONIC-DEHYDROGENASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHOMONOESTERASE	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).