Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A toxic yellow pigment, C30H30O8, obtained from cottonseed oil and detoxified by heating, that has been experimentally shown to inhibit sperm production.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
gossypein .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of a class of toxic
polyphenols found in the seeds of thecotton plant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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However, the eggs' hardness could be a natural occurrence, caused by hens consuming large amounts of food enriched with a compound called gossypol, which binds to protein in egg yolks, Xinhua said.
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However, the eggs' hardness could be a natural occurrence, caused by hens consuming large amounts of food enriched with a compound called gossypol, which binds to protein in egg yolks, Xinhua said.
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A paper published online on May 5 in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry describes how BI-97C1, an optically pure derivative of a cottonseed extract called gossypol, inhibits all six anti-apoptotic Bcl -2 family proteins.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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Cotton seeds are packed with protein but regular plants produce a toxic chemical called gossypol which can damage our liver and heart.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Cotton seeds are packed with protein but regular plants produce a toxic chemical called gossypol which can damage our liver and heart.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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These substances may be natural constituents of the seeds, such as gossypol and cylopropenoid fatty acids in cottonseed, cyanogenetic glycoside in linseed, ricin in castor beans, sinigrin or sinalbin in mustard seed, saponin in shea nuts, the trypsin inhibitor in soyabeans, or toxic mould metabolites, such as aflatoxin, which may form if the seeds are allowed to spoil by moulds.
Chapter 7 1995
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Oilseeds often contain toxic or undesirable factors such as gossypol in cottonseed, trypsin inhibitor in soya beans and cyanogenetic glucosides in linseed, whereas groundnuts have been noted as being particularly vulnerable to mycotoxin formation.
Chapter 6 1988
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"The exciting finding is that we have been able to reduce gossypol – which is a very toxic compound – from cottonseed to a level that is considered safe for consumption," said Dr. Keerti Rathore, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station plant biotechnologist.
Cotton: it's what's for dinner Edward Willett 2006
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"The exciting finding is that we have been able to reduce gossypol – which is a very toxic compound – from cottonseed to a level that is considered safe for consumption," said Dr. Keerti Rathore, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station plant biotechnologist.
Archive 2006-11-19 Edward Willett 2006
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Researchers at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station used RNAi to reduce the toxic compound gossypol from cottonseed to a level that is considered safe for consumption, but left the compound in the rest of the plant to ward off insects and disease.
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