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

Common Names

Corn

How this plant is used

Food

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
GALACTOXYLASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CAROTENE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GAMMA-NONALACTONE	2	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SITOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL	14	Oil	not available	752.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Essential Oil	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEOSMIN	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Hull Husk	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLINS	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Seed	4500.0	6000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	2000.0	5000.0	-0.84	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
Tracheorelaxant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer	4	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal	8	Duke, 1992 *
Tremorigenic	1	Martindale's 28th
Tremorilytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide	9	Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Triglycerigenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Trypsin-Enhancer	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	10	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	4	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urinary-Antiseptic	1	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th