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

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Corn

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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
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.