Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Celery

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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
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Fruit Essent. Oil	3000.0	14000.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	-0.84	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Root Essent. Oil	not available	69000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Seed	1.0	420.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Seed Essent. Oil	5000.0	14000.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINYL-PROPIONATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Leaf	136.0	266.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Plant	0.0	64.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Shoot	0.0	64.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Pt	3.0	67.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Root	0.3	9.0	-0.31	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
AMMONIA	0	Stem	not available	19600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA	0	Pt	not available	15480.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANGELIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Peristaltic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	88	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photoactive	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Photocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photodermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phototoxic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	5	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Phytohormonal	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Podagragenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Preservative	2	Merck 11th Edition
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *