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
MAGNESIUM-OXIDE	0	Seed	4400.0	5600.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE-OXIDE	0	Seed	300.0	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	2240.0	6830.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	not available	16.0	-0.80	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTIFLORIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCIMENE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSANOL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	36640.0	61270.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	31840.0	48438.0	2.02	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Seed	not available	11.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
PECTINS	0	Seed	not available	4100.0	-1.40	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS-OXIDES	0	Seed	10300.0	13300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Seed Oil	not available	0.6	-0.28	Booth, S. L., Suttie, J. W. 1998. Dietary intake and adequacy of vitamin K. J. Nutrition, 128(5): 785-788.
POTASSIUM-OXIDE	0	Seed	9400.0	10700.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	144400.0	197800.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDOXINE	43	Seed	not available	0.9	-1.18	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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.