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
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-TRANS-7-TRIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-TRANS-7-TRIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	37000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-TRANS-7-TRIEN-1-AL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-1-AL	1	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	24000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-1-AL	1	Silk Essent. Oil	10000.0	90000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-1-OL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-2-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-2-OL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-2-OL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-2-OL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-2-ONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-2-ONE	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-2-ONE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-AMINO-LEVULINIC-ACID	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEOXY-RIBONUCLEASE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIAMINO-PROPANE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIETHYL-AMINE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIGALACTOSYL-DIGLYCERIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	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
Sunscreen	5	Jim Duke's personal files.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Suppurative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Surfactant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic	2	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide	4	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Termitifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Testosterone-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Thyroid-Peroxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Thyrotropic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Toxic	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.