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Botanical origin of Indian celery seed (fruit)

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In the course of our study on the traditional medicines and foodstuffs used in Pakistan, we investigated the origin of Indian celery by using the analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence of nuclear rDNA and a phytochemical approach. We found that the source plant of the Indian celery containing coumarin derivatives such as seselin (1), bergapten (2) and isopimpinellin (3) was not common celery, Apium graveolens. Our results suggest the source plant is Seseli diffusum even though Indian workers reported that A. graveolens seeds contain the aforementioned compounds. In addition, a market survey of the Indian celery in Pakistan and related countries revealed that the Indian celery seeds in Pakistani markets are mainly composed of three species which have been confused in rural markets.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Prof. J. Kitajima, Prof. J. Pierre and Dr. S. Tenessi for kindly supplying the seeds of the authentic samples. We thank Dr. A. Takano in Showa Pharmaceutical University for kindly supplying the commercial seed samples from Nepal and India (Ce-22 to Ce-24). Part of this study was supported by a Health Labour Sciences Research Grant. We also thank Dr. F. Kiuchi in the Research Center for Medicinal Plant Resources, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, for his critical reading of the manuscript and his instructive advice.

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  1. Division of Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry and Narcotics, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 158-8501, Japan

    Takuro Maruyama & Yukihiro Goda

  2. H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan

    Ahmed Abbaskhan, Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary & Yoshisuke Tsuda

  3. Passin Les Granges 01260, Champagne-en-Valromey, France

    Michel Farille

  4. Conservatoire Botanique Service des espaces verts Ville de Mulhouse, 2 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 10020, 68948, Mulhouse Cedex 9, France

    Jean-Pierre Reduron

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Fig. S1 ITS sequence alignment for the genotypes found in Indian celery available at Pakistanii and therelated countries' markets.A dot '.' and a hyphen '-' indicate the same nucleotide as type A and a gap, respcetively.5.8S rDNA 1 region is boxed (TIFF 364 KB)

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Fig. S2 Microscopic images of major celery seeds found in the Pakistani crude drug markets(types A, B and D) and the authentic plants (Ce-1, -62 and -63).Ce-1, -62 and -63 are A. graveolens, C. leptophyllum and S. diffusum, respectively.The length of each bar indicates 0.3 mm (TIFF 3,132 KB)

Fig. S3 TLC analysis for the methanol extracts of the celery-related seeds used in this study (TIFF 3,355 KB)

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Maruyama, T., Abbaskhan, A., Choudhary, M.I. et al. Botanical origin of Indian celery seed (fruit). J Nat Med 63, 248–253 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11418-009-0321-0

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