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

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Corn

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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
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Oil	90.0	257.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	17000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	17000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ZEACAROTENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ZEIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ALUMINUM	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Seed	1.0	275.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Silk Stigma Style	not available	213.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMINO-ACIDS	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMINO-ADIPIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA	0	Seed	not available	10030.0	1.16	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA(NH3)	0	Seed	not available	1030.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
ANILINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHERAXANTHIN	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
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	Duke, 1992 *
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	2	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	2	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Gastroirritant	1	Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective	5	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *