AUTHOR=Tan Cheng Seng , Isa Nurulhikma Md , Ismail Ismanizan , Zainal Zamri 

TITLE=Agarwood Induction: Current Developments and Future Perspectives

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2019.00122

DOI=10.3389/fpls.2019.00122

ISSN=1664-462X

ABSTRACT=<p>Agarwood is a resinous part of the non-timber <italic>Aquilaria</italic> tree, which is a highly valuable product for medicine and fragrance purposes. To protect the endangered <italic>Aquilaria</italic> species, mass plantation of <italic>Aquilaria</italic> trees has become a sustainable way in Asian countries to obtain the highly valuable agarwood. As only physiologically triggered <italic>Aquilaria</italic> tree can produce agarwood, effective induction methods are long sought in the agarwood industry. In this paper, we attempt to provide an overview for the past efforts toward the understanding of agarwood formation, the evolvement of induction methods and their further development prospects by integrating it with high-throughput omics approaches.</p>