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
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Silk Stigma Style	not available	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ZEACAROTENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ZEIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Root	not available	59.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Shoot	not available	234.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BIOTIN	4	Cob	0.0	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIPHENYL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BISABOLOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	90000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Seed	0.0	15.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
BUTAN-1-OL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTENYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADAVERINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Seed	0.0	1.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Shoot	not available	0.7	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID-ESTER	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	10.0	181.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Silk Stigma Style	not available	2520.0	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
Antidote (Iodine)	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidote (Lead)	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Mercury)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paracetamol)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidrepanocytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysgeuzic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic	4	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyspeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiear-wax	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiEBV	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	13	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	7	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th