Description

Aquilaria sinensis is one of the important plant resources involved in the production of agarwood in China. The agarwood resin collected from wounded Aquilaria trees has been used in Asia for aromatic or medicinal purposes from ancient times.

Scientific classitication

Family: Thymelaeaceae

Genus: Aquilaria

Common Name

Tu Chen Xiang

Reference

Nong, W., Law, S., Wong, A., Baril, T., Swale, T., Chu, L. M., Hayward, A., Lau, D., & Hui, J. (2020). Chromosomal-level reference genome of the incense tree Aquilaria sinensis. Molecular ecology resources, 20(4), 971–979.

Reference

Ding, X., Mei, W., Lin, Q., Wang, H., Wang, J., Peng, S., Li, H., Zhu, J., Li, W., Wang, P., Chen, H., Dong, W., Guo, D., Cai, C., Huang, S., Cui, P., & Dai, H. (2020). Genome sequence of the agarwood tree Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng: the first chromosome-level draft genome in the Thymelaeceae family. GigaScience, 9(3), giaa013.