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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	6	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229