Agarwood and its products: Aquilaria trees growing in a plantation located in Assam, India (A); resin impregnated stems are seen (B), which, when chiseled and cleaned, reveal the resinous portions (C); the wood is distilled to produce the fragrant agarwood oils (D).

| Reported import (A) and export (B) volumes of different types of agarwood-based products in the global market during 2008-2018. (Source of data: CITES Trade Database).

| Shares of different agarwood species in global trade of agarwood chips (A) and oil (B) during 2008-2010. The values indicate number of times transactions were recorded for the species. (Source of data: CITES Trade Database, 2019).

| The role of stress in agarwood aroma: Multiple sources of stress in Aquilaria species trigger a complex response that leads ultimately to the formation of fragrant resins.