Plant Gossypium sp (Malvaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cotton

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
FIBER	15	Seed	167500.0	243700.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Seed	not available	3.8	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN	0	Stem	not available	40.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GOSSYCAERULIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GOSSYFULVIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GOSSYPOL	54	Oil	500.0	7000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GOSSYPOL	54	Seed	50.0	2500.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
GOSSYPURPURIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	10200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBACITRIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXATRIACONTANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HIRSUTRIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Seed	not available	3400.0	1.66	Duke, 1992 *
IRON-OXIDES	0	Seed	200.0	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOASTRAGALIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-LIMONENE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	72480.0	104328.0	-0.02	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
Antivertigo	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antixerotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Apoptotic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Astringent	1	Merck 11th Edition
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Avicide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	2	Zhu, M., Phillipson, J. D., Greengrass, P. M., Bowery, N. E., Cai, Y. 1997. Plant Polyphenols: Biologically Active Compounds or Non-Selective Binders to Protein? Phytochemistry, 44(3): 441-447.
Beta-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	18	Duke, 1992 *
Candidicide	4	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.