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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
CYCLOSADOL 1 Seed *
CYCLOSADOL 1 Seed Oil *
CYCLOSATIVENE 0 Leaf *
CYSTATHIONE 0 Plant *
CYSTINE 2 Seed 260.0 1082.0 -1.44 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CYTOCHROME-C 0 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
D-GLUCURONIC-ACID 0 Plant *
DAUCOSTEROL 5 Silk Stigma Style 440.0 *
DEC-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Plant *
DEC-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 7000.0 *
DEC-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Husk Essent. Oil *
DEC-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 3000.0 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Husk Essent. Oil 37000.0 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Plant *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 6000.0 20000.0 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Husk Essent. Oil 37000.0 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Husk Essent. Oil 13000.0 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiallergenic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 10 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 6 *
Antialzheimeran 8 *
Antialzheimeran? 3 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 *
Antiamebic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antianaphylactic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiandrogenic 5 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 8 Martindale's 28th
Antianginal 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic 5 *
Antianorectic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarabiflavinotic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiarachidonate 1 *
Antiarrhythmic 8 Merck 11th Edition
Antiarteriosclerotic 3 *
Antiarthritic 16 *