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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Brassica oleracea var. botrytis l. (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Cauliflower
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
botrytis
Variety Author
L.
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Leaf 290.0 3115.0 0.11 *
TYROSINE 8 Flower 430.0 5555.0 *
TYROSINE 8 Leaf 630.0 6766.0 -0.34 *
VALINE 3 Flower 1000.0 12920.0 *
VALINE 3 Leaf 1280.0 13747.0 0.30 *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant *
VIT-B-6 0 Flower 2.0 30.0 1.00 *
VIT-B-6 0 Leaf 1.6 18.0 0.25 *
WATER 0 Leaf 890000.0 910230.0 0.51 *
WATER 0 Plant 894000.0 926000.0 0.66 *
ZINC 77 Flower 3.0 97.0 3.06 *
ZINC 77 Leaf 4.0 118.0 0.20 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 10 *
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 2 *
Dye 3 Merck 11th Edition
Embryotoxic 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Emetic 1 Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 6 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 1 Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 10 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry