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

Common Names

Corn

How this plant is used

Food

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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
CYCLOSADOL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOSADOL	1	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOSATIVENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTATHIONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Seed	260.0	1082.0	-1.44	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CYTOCHROME-C	0	Plant	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.
D-GLUCURONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Silk Stigma Style	not available	440.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Silk Essent. Oil	not available	7000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Silk Essent. Oil	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	37000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Silk Essent. Oil	6000.0	20000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	37000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	13000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	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
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	2	Martindale's 29th
Goitrogenic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	3	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hematopoietic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemorrhagic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostat	4	Martindale's 29th
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	18	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	10	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.