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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
SEDANOIC-ACID 0 Seed 100.0 150.0 not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
SEDANOIC-ALDEHYDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANOIC-ANHYDRIDE 0 Essential Oil 30000.0 80000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANOIC-ANHYDRIDE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 79000.0 80000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANOLIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANOLIDE 3 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANOLIDE 3 Seed 435.0 900.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANOLIDE 3 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANOLINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANONIC-ALDEHYDE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDANONIC-ANHYDRIDE 0 Leaf 570.0 15750.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
SEDANONIC-ANHYDRIDE 0 Seed 95.0 150.0 not available Wealth of India.
SEDANONIC-ANHYDRIDE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 30000.0 80000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SELANOLIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
SELENIUM 60 Fruit not available 0.2 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM 60 Root not available 0.0 -0.36 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SELENIUM 60 Seed not available 0.2 -0.26 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SENKYUNOLIDE 0 Root 30.0 240.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
SENKYUNOLIDE-J 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SENKYUNOLIDE-N 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nematicide 15 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nematistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 2 Martindale's 29th
NEP-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroexcitant 1 Martindale's 28th
Neurogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Neuroinhibitor 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective 4 Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic 4 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Neurotransmitter 1 Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 5 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic 3 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Nodulation-Signal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Odontolytic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 7 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *