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
CYCLOSADOL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOSADOL	1	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOSATIVENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTATHIONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Seed	260.0	1082.0	-1.44	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CYTOCHROME-C	0	Plant	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.
D-GLUCURONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Silk Stigma Style	not available	440.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Silk Essent. Oil	not available	7000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Silk Essent. Oil	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	37000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEC-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Silk Essent. Oil	6000.0	20000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	37000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	13000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	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
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiendotoxic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesherichic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiesophagitic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiestrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	9	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant	14	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.