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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CAR-3-ENE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 413500.0 439964.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Pt 36300.0 684980.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENES 0 Leaf 80.0 145.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CARVEOL 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVEOL-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVEOL-ACETATE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Essential Oil 2000.0 5000.0 -0.84 Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 550000.0 1.41 Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Leaf not available 1.0 -0.28 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVONE 19 Seed 19.0 75.0 -1.21 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVONE 19 Seed Essent. Oil 900.0 550000.0 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Seed Essent. Oil not available 1700.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Seed 125.0 200.0 -1.32 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
CELEREOIN 0 Seed not available 13.3 not available Duke, 1992 *
CELEREOSIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CELERIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Succinoxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sunscreen 6 Duke, 1992 *
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Synergist 1 Merck 11th Edition
Tachycardic 1 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Teratogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 4 Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 5 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 4 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 6 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Tracheorelaxant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 8 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 6 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.
Tremorigenic 2 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 8 Martindale's 29th