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
THREONINE	4	Seed	1290.0	5366.0	-0.62	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THYMOL	71	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL	71	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL	71	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
TIN	4	Seed	1.0	1.8	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Seed	0.1	63.0	1.61	Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROLS	0	Seed	900.0	1000.0	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-24-METHYL-23-DEHYDRO-LOPHENOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-24-METHYL-23-DEHYDRO-LOPHENOL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-FERULIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
TRANS-FERULIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	1800.0	1.39	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ISO-MENTH-5-EN-2-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-SINAPIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRICARBALLYL-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECAN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIGONELLINE	15	Seed	not available	4.0	-0.47	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
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).