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Agarwood is an expensive resinous heartwood derived from Aquilaria plants that is widely used in traditional medicines,incense and perfume.Only wounded trees can produce agarwood,and the huge demand for the agarwood products has led all Aquilaria spp.being endangered and listed in the Appendix II of the CITES (http://www.cites.org).The major components of agarwood are sesquiterpenes and phenylethyl chromones.Owing to a lack of genomic information,the molecular basis of wound-induced sesquiterpenes biosynthesis and agarwood formation remains unknown.