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Plant Zea mays (Poaceae)

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
POTASSIUM 14 Silk Stigma Style not available 12200.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PROLAMINE 0 Seed 45000.0 55000.0 not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROLINE 0 Root not available 69.0 -1.26 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Seed 2920.0 12147.0 0.16 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Shoot not available 11.0 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
PROPAN-1-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEASE INHIBITOR C1-4-A 0 Endosperm not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 22520.0 132000.0 -0.91 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Silk Stigma Style not available 99000.0 -1.00 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTOSAN 0 Seed Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PUTRESCINE 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDOXINE 43 Cob 1.0 3.0 not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PYRROLE 0 Silk Stigma Style not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRROLIDINE 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRUVIC-ACID 1 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Pollen Or Spore not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3,3'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Pollen Or Spore not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3,7-DI-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Pollen Or Spore not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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.