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Plant Triticum aestivum (Poaceae)

Common Names
Wheat
How this plant is used
Food
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
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-AL 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXOKINASE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXOSE-DIPHOSPHATASE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE 7 Seed 1000.0 6000.0 -0.03 Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXAMIC-ACID 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL 8 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Plant 70.0 770.0 0.17 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Seed 10.0 120.0 -0.14 Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID 4 Seed not available 1.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ISOCITRATE-DEHYDROGENASE 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOFERULIC-ACID 4 Seed 1.0 5.0 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Plant 10000.0 17000.0 1.26 Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Seed 4000.0 12000.0 0.19 Duke, 1992 *
ISOSCHAFTOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Seed 3400.0 5221.0 0.28 Duke, 1992 *
LAMINARASE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEAD 0 Seed not available 1.7 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *