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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Gossypium sp (Malvaceae)

Common Names
Cotton
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
(-)-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil 75100.0 *
(-)-CATECHIN 0 Stem 40.0 *
(-)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN 21 Stem 40.0 *
1-TRANS-ALPHA-BERGAMOTENE 0 Essential Oil 3300.0 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Essential Oil 25400.0 -0.25 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Plant *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant *
ALUMINUM-OXIDE 0 Seed 100.0 600.0 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed 960.0 2690.0 -0.39 *
ASH 0 Seed 34100.0 47000.0 -0.03 *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Plant *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Plant *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed *
BETAINE 14 Seed *
BIOTIN 4 Seed 0.3 -0.53 *
BISABOLENEOXIDE 0 Plant *
CADINENE 4 Essential Oil 2400.0 -0.89 *
CALCIUM-OXIDE 0 Seed 2400.0 4400.0 -0.45 *
CAMPHENE 9 Plant *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 500000.0 555000.0 0.13 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 2 (View) *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 (View) *
5-HT-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 (View) *
Abortifacient 2 (View) *
ACE-Inhibitor 4 (View) *
Acidulant 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 (View) *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 11 (View) *
Allelochemic 6 (View) Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic 2 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allergenic 7 (View) *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Amebicide 1 (View) *
Analgesic 8 (View) Kauderer, B., Zamith, H., Paumgartten, F.J.R., and Speit, G. Evaluation of the Mutagenicity of B-Myrcene in Mammalian Cells In Vitro. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 18: 28-34, 1991.
Anaphrodisiac 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Androgenic 2 (View) *
Anemiagenic 1 (View) *
Angiogenic 1 (View) *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 1 (View) *