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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
METHIONINE 15 Seed 670.0 2787.0 -0.39 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-2-THIENYL-KETONE 0 Leaf Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
METHYL-AMINE 1 Seed 27.0 -0.01 *
METHYL-PHENYLACETATE 2 Silk Essent. Oil 30000.0 40000.0 *
METHYL-PYRAN-2-CARBOXALDEHYDE 0 Leaf Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
MEVALONIC-ACID 0 Seed 14.0 *
MOLYBDENUM 2 Seed 0.1 6.3 0.45 *
MONOGALACTOSYL-DIGLYCERIDE 0 Plant *
MYO-INOSITOL 0 Plant *
MYRCENE 22 Husk Essent. Oil *
MYRCENE 22 Leaf *
MYRCENE 22 Seed *
MYRCENE 22 Seed Essent. Oil *
MYRECITIN-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed *
N-DEMETHYL-DIAZEPAM 0 Seed *
N-METHYL-BETA-PHENETHYLAMINE 0 Seed 1.1 *
N-METHYL-PHENETHYLAMINE 0 Seed 1.1 -1.00 *
N-PROPYL-GALLATE 0 Seed *
NAPHTHALENE 1 Husk Essent. Oil *
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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 *
Surfactant 2 *
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 *
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 *
Testosterone-Inducer 1 *
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 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 2 *
Toxic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.