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Plant 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.
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
NEOGLUCOBRASSICIN 1 Flower 8.0 450.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NEOGLUCOBRASSICIN 1 Leaf 10.0 900.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NEOGLUCOBRASSICIN 1 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Flower 5.0 85.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL 3 Flower 0.0 12.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL 3 Leaf 0.3 7.0 -0.28 Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN 0 Flower 3100.0 47500.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN 0 Leaf 7000.0 71800.0 1.40 Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Flower 120.0 1550.0 0.48 Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Leaf 240.0 2578.0 -0.31 Duke, 1992 *
OXALATE 0 Leaf 1900.0 20406.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Plant not available 68.0 -0.54 Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Flower not available 35.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Leaf not available 13.0 -0.35 Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Flower 240.0 3100.0 0.14 Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf 470.0 5048.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Flower 1.4 18.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Leaf 5.4 63.0 0.85 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
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Tineacide 1 Martindale's 29th
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 3 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Tranquilizer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tremorigenic 1 Martindale's 28th
Tremorilytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Tumor-Promoter 2 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 4 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Uricosuric 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.