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
VANILLIN	28	Seed	4.0	31.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VANILLIN	28	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VINYL-ETHYL-PHENETHYL-KETONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Seed	1.0	3.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-D-3	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-K	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
VITEXIN	18	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	100000.0	885000.0	2.52	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	620000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXIN	43	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XYLENE	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XYLOARABINOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
YTTERBIUM	0	Seed	0.0	4.5	3.31	Duke, 1992 *
ZEA GLYCOPROTEIN U-CSE-100	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEA GLYCOPROTEIN U-CSE-300	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEA MAYS ALPHA-AMYLASE INHIBITOR	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEA MAYS PROTEASE INHIBITOR	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAMATIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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
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).