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Plant Triticum aestivum (Poaceae)

Common Names
Wheat
How this plant is used
Food

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View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
STEARIC-ACID 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-DEHYDROGENASE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Seed not available 8400.0 -0.58 Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR 0 Seed 14000.0 59000.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Plant 1300.0 2900.0 -0.41 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Seed 1200.0 3200.0 0.38 Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 Seed 3.0 5.0 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
TETRADECA-2,12-DIEN-4,6,8,10-TETRAYN 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Plant 3.3 4.0 -0.31 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Seed 1.1 12.0 1.29 Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE 4 Seed 3000.0 6000.0 -0.48 Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROL 93 Seed 59.0 1897.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN 9 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIDEC-1,11-DIEN-3,5,7,9-TETRAYN 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIDEC-1-EN-3,5,7,9,11-PENTAYN 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIPHOSPHOPYRIDINE-NUCLEOTIDE-OXIDASE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRITIOL 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 1000.0 3000.0 -0.11 Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE 8 Seed 1000.0 9000.0 0.29 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
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 4 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosation 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
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 5 Duke, 1992 *