Plant Zea mays (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Corn

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
OCTAN-1-OL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	20000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-OL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	12000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-OL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	20000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-OL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-ONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-ONE	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-ONE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	3470.0	14435.0	-0.86	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ORIENTIN	4	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Fruit	not available	99.0	-0.30	Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	4.0	46.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Shoot	not available	1.0	-0.71	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE	4	Cob	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-VINYL-GUAIACOL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	1710.0	7114.0	-0.55	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antigastritic	5	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigoiter	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	3	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.