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

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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
NAPHTHALENE	1	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NAPHTHALENE	1	Silk Essent. Oil	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NAPHTHALENE	1	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOCRYPTOXANTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOXANTHIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL	11	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
NIACIN	39	Cob	4.0	16.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
NIACIN	39	Seed	16.0	71.0	0.84	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Silk Stigma Style	not available	25.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Seed	0.1	6.3	0.30	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTIANAMINE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	30000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	30000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Silk Essent. Oil	not available	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Silk Essent. Oil	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAL-N-2-OL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
NO-Genic	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nociceptive	1	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.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	6	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osmoregulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidant	2	Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	5	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pancreatoxic	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
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Pediculicide	1	Duke, 1992 *