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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Zea mays (Poaceae)

Common Names
Corn
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
QUERCETIN-3-O-ALPHA-D-RHAMNOSYL-O-BETA-L-GALACTOSIDE? 0 Pollen Or Spore *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 2 Pollen Or Spore *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL-O-ALPHA-L-GALACTOSIDE? 0 Pollen Or Spore *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-NEOHESPEROSIDE 0 Pollen Or Spore *
QUERCETIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE-3'-O-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Pollen Or Spore *
QUERCETIN-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
QUINIC-ACID 1 Plant *
RAFFINOSE 1 Fruit 1000.0 3000.0 -1.00 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RESIN 0 Silk Stigma Style Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
RHAMNOGALACTURONAN-I 0 Tissue Culture *
RHAMNOSE 0 Silk Stigma Style *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Cob 1.0 3.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 1.0 4.0 -0.22 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Silk Stigma Style 1.5 -1.00 *
RIBONUCLEASE 2 Tissue Culture *
RICINOLEIC-ACID 7 Plant *
RUBISCO 0 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SABINOL 5 Leaf Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 1.0 5.0 -0.32 *
SALICYLIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiendometriotic 2 *
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 *
Antienterotic 1 *
Antiepileptic 6 *
Antiescherichic 5 *
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 *
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 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 *
Antifibrotic 3 *
Antiflu 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 2 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.