The potential commercial aspects of gossypol

Abstract

Abstract Gossypol, a yellow polyphenolic pigment contained in all plant parts of the predominant cotton cultivars, has been the source of practical as well as scientific interest for over a century. Recent changes in both cotton fiber and cottonseed products markets have focused renewed interest on potential alternate uses for fiber and seed and other products of cotton and for the gossypol contained in the seed. A review of the literature dealing with the potential commercial use of gossypol from 1886, when it was first isolated, until the present, is presented.