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Plant Zea mays (Poaceae)

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
POTASSIUM 14 Silk Stigma Style not available 12200.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PROLAMINE 0 Seed 45000.0 55000.0 not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROLINE 0 Root not available 69.0 -1.26 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Seed 2920.0 12147.0 0.16 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Shoot not available 11.0 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
PROPAN-1-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEASE INHIBITOR C1-4-A 0 Endosperm not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 22520.0 132000.0 -0.91 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Silk Stigma Style not available 99000.0 -1.00 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTOSAN 0 Seed Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PUTRESCINE 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDOXINE 43 Cob 1.0 3.0 not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PYRROLE 0 Silk Stigma Style not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRROLIDINE 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRUVIC-ACID 1 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Pollen Or Spore not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3,3'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Pollen Or Spore not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3,7-DI-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Pollen Or Spore not available not available not available 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
Antihemorrhagic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic 12 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 13 Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic? 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic 11 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
AntiHIV 8 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihomocysteine 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Antihyperkeratotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipidemic 1 Duke, 1992 *