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

Common Names

Corn

How this plant is used

Food

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
GALACTOXYLASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CAROTENE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GAMMA-NONALACTONE	2	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SITOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL	14	Oil	not available	752.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Essential Oil	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Hull Husk	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLINS	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Seed	4500.0	6000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	2000.0	5000.0	-0.84	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
Antistomatitic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke	3	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
Antisunburn	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X	7	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
Antitachycardic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antitartar	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiTGF-beta	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithiamin	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antithromboxane	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyreotropic	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antithyroid	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antithyrotoxic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTMJ	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitoxoplasmotic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.