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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Zea mays (Poaceae)

Common Names
Corn
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NAPHTHALENE 1 Seed Essent. Oil *
NAPHTHALENE 1 Silk Essent. Oil 3000.0 *
NAPHTHALENE 1 Silk Stigma Style *
NEOCRYPTOXANTHIN 0 Plant *
NEOXANTHIN 2 Leaf *
NEROLIDOL 11 Leaf Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
NIACIN 39 Cob 4.0 16.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
NIACIN 39 Seed 16.0 71.0 0.84 *
NIACIN 39 Silk Stigma Style 25.0 *
NICKEL 3 Seed 0.1 6.3 0.30 *
NICOTIANAMINE 1 Leaf *
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil 30000.0 *
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Husk Essent. Oil *
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Seed Essent. Oil 30000.0 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Husk Essent. Oil 10000.0 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Leaf *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 10000.0 *
NONA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Husk Essent. Oil *
NONA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 3000.0 *
NONAL-N-2-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Autotoxic 1 *
Bacteristat 5 Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.
Barbituate-Synergist 1 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 1 *
Beta-Blocker 3 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bradycardic 1 Martindale's 28th
Bronchodilator 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchomucolytic 1 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Bronchomucotropic 1 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.
Bronchoprotectant 1 *
Bronchorelaxant 2 *
Bronchorrheic 1 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Bruchiphobe 4 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bufocide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 6 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).