Natural products in agarwood and Aquilaria plants: chemistry, biological activities and biosynthesis

W Li, HQ Chen, H Wang, WL Mei, HF Dai - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: Up to the end of 2019. Agarwood is a resinous portion of Aquilaria trees, which is
formed in response to environmental stress factors such as physical injury or microbial …

Aquilaria spp.(agarwood) as source of health beneficial compounds: A review of traditional use, phytochemistry and pharmacology

YZHY Hashim, PG Kerr, P Abbas, HM Salleh - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Aquilaria spp.(agarwood) has been a part of Ayurvedic
and Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries. Agarwood has also been used as a …

Agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis L.) a quality fragrant and medicinally significant plant based essential oil with pharmacological potentials and genotoxicity

R Gogoi, N Sarma, T Begum, SK Chanda… - Industrial Crops and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aquilaria malaccensis (agarwood essential oil), is a highly priced medicinal and most
expensive aromatic oil in the industry. The purpose of the current study was to assess the …

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitory potential of various sesquiterpene analogues for Alzheimer's disease therapy

A Arya, R Chahal, R Rao, MH Rahman, D Kaushik… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a gradually growing irreversible illness of the brain that almost
affects every fifth person (aged> 80 years) in the world. World Health Organization (WHO) …

Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological Activity of Agarwood and Aquilaria Plants

S Wang, Z Yu, C Wang, C Wu, P Guo, J Wei - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Agarwood, a highly precious non-timber fragrant wood of Aquilaria spp.(Thymelaeaceae),
has been widely used in traditional medicine, religious rites, and cultural activities. Due to …

Agarwood—the fragrant molecules of a wounded tree

P Shivanand, NF Arbie, S Krishnamoorthy, N Ahmad - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agarwood, popularly known as oudh or gaharu, is a fragrant resinous wood of high
commercial value, traded worldwide and primarily used for its distinctive fragrance in …

Understanding agarwood formation and its challenges

S Rasool, R Mohamed - Agarwood: science behind the fragrance, 2016 - Springer
The resinous portion of the Aquilaria tree is called agarwood, a valuable non-timber product
being used as medicine and incenses in Asia, Middle East, and Europe. Driven by high …

Formation of agarwood from Aquilaria malaccensis in response to inoculation of local strains of Fusarium solani

A Faizal, RR Esyanti, EN Aulianisa, Iriawati, E Santoso… - Trees, 2017 - Springer
Key message Agarwood formation in Aquilaria malaccensis could be artificially stimulated
by fungal infection. Furthermore, A. malaccensis adapts to this infection by developing …

Overview of sesquiterpenes and chromones of agarwood originating from four main species of the genus Aquilaria

M Gao, X Han, Y Sun, H Chen, Y Yang, Y Liu, H Meng… - RSC …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The main chemical constituents of agarwood are sesquiterpenes and chromones, which can
be divided into different categories depending on their molecular skeletons. Agarwoods are …

Antibacterial and antifungal sesquiterpenoids: Chemistry, resource, and activity

HY Li, WQ Yang, XZ Zhou, F Shao, T Shen, HY Guan… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases caused by bacteria and fungi are threatening human health all over the
world. It is an increasingly serious problem that the efficacies of some antibacterial and …