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

Common Names

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
POTASSIUM	14	Silk Stigma Style	not available	12200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLAMINE	0	Seed	45000.0	55000.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROLINE	0	Root	not available	69.0	-1.26	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Seed	2920.0	12147.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Shoot	not available	11.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
PROPAN-1-OL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEASE INHIBITOR C1-4-A	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	22520.0	132000.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	99000.0	-1.00	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOSAN	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUTRESCINE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDOXINE	43	Cob	1.0	3.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PYRROLE	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRROLIDINE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRUVIC-ACID	1	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3,3'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3,7-DI-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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).