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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
NONAN-1-AL 0 Husk Essent. Oil not available 97000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-AL 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-AL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 80000.0 28000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil not available 30000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-OL 0 Husk Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-OL 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available 30000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-OL 0 Essential Oil not available 260000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-OL 0 Husk Essent. Oil not available 132000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-OL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-OL 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available 260000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-OL 0 Silk Essent. Oil not available 2000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-ONE 0 Essential Oil not available 20000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-ONE 0 Husk Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-ONE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available 20000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-ONE 0 Silk Stigma Style not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
O-DIETHYL-PHTHALATE 0 Silk Stigma Style not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCT-1-EN-3-OL 0 Husk Essent. Oil not available 25000.0 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
Antiprostatitic 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiprostatotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic 4 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Antipsittacotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac 5 Martindale's 28th
Antipsychotic 4 Martindale's 29th
Antipyretic 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradiation 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiradicular 20 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiretinopathic 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
Antiretinotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic 12 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antisarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *