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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
POTASSIUM 14 Silk Stigma Style 12200.0 *
PROLAMINE 0 Seed 45000.0 55000.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROLINE 0 Root 69.0 -1.26 *
PROLINE 0 Seed 2920.0 12147.0 0.16 *
PROLINE 0 Shoot 11.0 -0.71 *
PROPAN-1-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
PROTEASE INHIBITOR C1-4-A 0 Endosperm *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 22520.0 132000.0 -0.91 *
PROTEIN 0 Silk Stigma Style 99000.0 -1.00 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Tissue Culture *
PROTOSAN 0 Seed Oil *
PUTRESCINE 0 Sprout Seedling *
PYRIDOXINE 43 Cob 1.0 3.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PYRROLE 0 Silk Stigma Style *
PYRROLIDINE 1 Seed *
PYRUVIC-ACID 1 Sprout Seedling *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant *
QUERCETIN 176 Pollen Or Spore *
QUERCETIN-3,3'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Pollen Or Spore *
QUERCETIN-3,7-DI-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Pollen Or Spore *
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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.