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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil 5.0 15000.0 -0.60 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.93 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Root Essent. Oil 179000.0 1.36 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Seed 57.0 1530.0 -0.51 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil 5000.0 15000.0 -0.74 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Stem Essent. Oil 12000.0 -1.00 *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Fruit Essent. Oil 55000.0 325000.0 1.00 *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Leaf Essent. Oil 30000.0 1.00 *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Seed 100.0 9750.0 1.00 *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Seed Essent. Oil 55000.0 325000.0 *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Stem Essent. Oil 10000.0 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed 210.0 -0.55 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Pt 30.0 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BIACETYL 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
BORON 4 Root 4.0 103.0 2.92 *
BORON 4 Seed 43.0 61.0 1.75 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BROMINE 0 Root 1.0 -1.10 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
BUTYLIDENE-NAPHTHALIDE 0 Essential Oil *
BUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 10 Fruit Essent. Oil 4000.0 *
BUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 10 Leaf Essent. Oil 15000.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Mitotic 1 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
MMP-9-Inhibitor 2 *
Molluscicide 5 *
Monoamine-Precursor 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Monoaminergic 1 *
Mosquitocide 1 *
Mosquitofuge 2 *
Motor-Depressant 6 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic 2 Martindale's 29th
Musculotropic 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic 13 *
Mutagenic? 1 *
Mycobactericide 3 *
Myocardiotonic 1 *
Myoprotective 1 *
Myorelaxant 14 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Narcotic 1 *
Natriuretic 1 *