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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.
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
SUCROSE 14 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 14700.0 70000.0 -0.60 Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS 0 Seed 14700.0 70000.0 0.38 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SULFUR 14 Root 100.0 1000.0 -0.51 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Pt not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 1000.0 -0.54 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Seed 1.0 1400.0 0.07 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL-ACETATE 2 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL-PROPIONATE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOLENE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available 33000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 2000.0 -0.69 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 2000.0 -0.59 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Root Essent. Oil not available 33000.0 -0.68 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Seed Essent. Oil not available 2000.0 -0.62 Duke, 1992 *
TETRAHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
THIAMIN 31 Pt 0.0 10.0 1.26 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE 0 Fruit 0.3 1.2 -1.08 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Gastroprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Genotoxic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Glucogonogenic 1 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathione-Depleting 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogenic 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Hemolytic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemorrhagic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostat 4 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 20 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic 1 Fitoterapia No.5-1986.