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

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Corn

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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
GALACTOXYLASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CAROTENE	2	Seed	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.
GAMMA-NONALACTONE	2	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SITOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL	14	Oil	not available	752.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Essential Oil	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Hull Husk	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLINS	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Seed	4500.0	6000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	2000.0	5000.0	-0.84	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.

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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
Hypotriglyceridemic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	12	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	18	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	9	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	22	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge?	1	Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile	4	J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulin-Sparing	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).