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
GLUCOSE	7	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Seed	6360.0	26457.0	-0.64	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUTAMIC-ACID-DECARBOXYLASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTATHIONE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTATHIONE	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTATHIONE	7	Seed	54.0	169.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GLUTELIN	0	Fruit	14685.0	67325.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GLUTEN	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.
GLYCEROL	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Seed	1270.0	5283.0	-0.82	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCOLIC-ACID	4	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUANIDINE	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	38000.0	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
HEMICELLULOSE	0	Cob	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-4-EN-2-OL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	64000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-4-EN-2-OL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	120000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-4-EN-2-OL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-4-EN-2-ONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-4-EN-2-ONE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	15000.0	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
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Varroacide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	12	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	2	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vermicide	1	Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Vermifuge	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vibriocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vitamin-A-Activity	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	7	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).