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
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	1500.0	6240.0	-0.63	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHENYLALANINE-AMMONIA-LYASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-ETHANOLAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-INOSITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHOENOL-PYRUVATE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHOLIPIDS	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	600.0	4066.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Silk Stigma Style	not available	287.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Fruit	not available	0.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Oil	not available	0.0	-1.06	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTATE	0	Seed	310.0	6400.0	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID	9	Pollen Or Spore	not available	2600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID	9	Seed	7200.0	12900.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOFLUENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOHAEMAGGLUTININ	2	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Seed	600.0	2800.0	0.12	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	2400.0	11450.0	-0.10	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.