Review for Chemical Components and Quality Assessment on Agarwood
Chemical components of agarwood are contributors to aroma and pharmacological effects and therefore play important roles in quality assessment on agarwood. The authors made a review in chemical components, authenticity identification and quality grading of agarwood. They also proposed to develop authenticity identification technology and to establish grading method and quality certification system, aiming at identifying wild and artificial agarwood, original growing area and tree species for better development of the agarwood industry.