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

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
BERGAPTEN	26	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Seed	not available	1.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Shoot	not available	145.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Pt	0.0	0.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	8.0	36.0	-0.08	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	7.5	36.0	1.82	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Pt	1.0	144.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	5000.0	43000.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	5000.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Seed	55.0	1290.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	5000.0	43000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	35000.0	1.68	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Seed	1.0	875.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	35000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-EUDESMOL	13	Seed	76.0	225.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-HUMULENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Fruit	not available	2000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Seed Essent. Oil	200.0	2000.0	-1.03	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 *