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Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CAR-3-ENE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 413500.0 439964.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Pt 36300.0 684980.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENES 0 Leaf 80.0 145.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CARVEOL 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVEOL-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVEOL-ACETATE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Essential Oil 2000.0 5000.0 -0.84 Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 550000.0 1.41 Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Leaf not available 1.0 -0.28 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVONE 19 Seed 19.0 75.0 -1.21 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVONE 19 Seed Essent. Oil 900.0 550000.0 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Seed Essent. Oil not available 1700.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Seed 125.0 200.0 -1.32 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
CELEREOIN 0 Seed not available 13.3 not available Duke, 1992 *
CELEREOSIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CELERIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoprotectant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Bronchorelaxant 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe 3 Duke, 1992 *
Bufocide 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 18 Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist? 1 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 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 58 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 16 Martindale's 28th
Candidistat 3 Duke, 1992 *
Capillarigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Capillariprotective 2 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 10 Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic? 2 Martindale's 29th
Cardiac 2 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Cardiodepressant 3 Duke, 1992 *