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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
LYSINE 4 Seed 1370.0 5699.0 -0.87 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM 65 Seed 100.0 1600.0 -0.53 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Silk Stigma Style 1790.0 *
MALEIC-ACID 0 Plant *
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant *
MALIC-ACID 15 Silk Stigma Style Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MALIC-ACID-DEHYDROGENASE 0 Plant *
MALONIC-ACID 1 Plant *
MALTOSYL-TRANSFERASE 0 Plant *
MANGANESE 14 Seed 0.8 63.0 0.12 *
MANGANESE 14 Silk Stigma Style 34.0 -1.00 *
MANNOSE 3 Plant 1.0 7.0 *
MAYSIN 3 Leaf *
MAYSIN 3 Silk Stigma Style *
MELATONIN 23 Seed 0.0 Hattori, A., et. al. 1995. Identification of Melatonin in Plants and its Effects on Plasma Melatonin Levels and Binding to Melatonin Receptors in Vertebrates. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Int., 35(3): 627-634.
MENTHOL 63 Leaf Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
MENTHOL 63 Silk Stigma Style Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
MERCURY 1 Seed 0.0 0.1 -0.30 *
MESO-INOSITOL 0 Pollen Or Spore *
METHIONINE 15 Pollen Or Spore *
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Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 8 *
Ethanolytic 1 *
Expectorant 12 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.
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 2 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 35 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide 28 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 2 *
GABA-nergic 2 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective 5 *
Gastrosedative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Glucogonogenic 1 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 *