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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Zea mays (Poaceae)

Common Names
Corn
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GLUCOSE 7 Sprout Seedling *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Seed 6360.0 26457.0 -0.64 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUTAMIC-ACID-DECARBOXYLASE 0 Plant *
GLUTATHIONE 7 Fruit *
GLUTATHIONE 7 Root *
GLUTATHIONE 7 Seed 54.0 169.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GLUTELIN 0 Fruit 14685.0 67325.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GLUTEN 2 Seed Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GLYCEROL 8 Plant *
GLYCINE 12 Seed 1270.0 5283.0 -0.82 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCOLIC-ACID 4 Silk Stigma Style *
GUAIACOL 18 Seed *
GUANIDINE 6 Plant *
GUM 0 Silk Stigma Style 38000.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
HEMICELLULOSE 0 Cob *
HEPT-4-EN-2-OL 0 Husk Essent. Oil 64000.0 *
HEPT-4-EN-2-OL 0 Seed Essent. Oil 120000.0 *
HEPT-4-EN-2-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
HEPT-4-EN-2-ONE 0 Essential Oil 15000.0 *
HEPT-4-EN-2-ONE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 15000.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Irritant 24 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Juvabional 5 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 3 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 5 *
Larvistat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 8 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Lectin 1 Martindale's 29th
Leptingenic 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
Leucocytogenic 1 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 4 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Lipotropic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 5 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 3 *
Litholytic 1 *
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 2 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.