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Common Names
Cotton
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUERCETIN-3-SOPHOROSIDE | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUERCIMERITRIN | 6 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RAFFINOSE | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Seed | not available | 2.3 | -0.47 | Duke, 1992 * |
| RUTIN | 87 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SALICYLIC-ACID | 34 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SEROTONIN | 26 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICON-OXIDE | 0 | Seed | 1200.0 | 3900.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM-OXIDE | 0 | Seed | 500.0 | 1400.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Seed | 1760.0 | 5589.0 | -0.44 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SUGARS | 0 | Seed | not available | 72900.0 | 0.45 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SULFUR-OXIDE | 0 | Seed | 1700.0 | 2800.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIN | 35 | Stem | not available | 17700.0 | -1.36 | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Seed | not available | 3.2 | -0.81 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TOCOPHEROLS | 0 | Oil | not available | 900.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRIACONTANOL | 3 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| WATER | 0 | Seed | 67700.0 | 87700.0 | -0.54 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Oviposition-Stimulant | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Oxytocic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| P450-2B1-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| P450-Inducer | 1 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| P450-Inhibitor | 1 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| PAF-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Paralytic | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Parasympathomimetic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Percutaneostimulant | 1 | Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990. |
| Perfumery | 10 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Peroxynitrite-Scavenger | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pesticide | 29 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PGE2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pheromone | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Phospholipase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pigment | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Plasmodicide | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Progesteronigenic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Proliferant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prooxidant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |