Systematic review synthesizes recent phytochemical discoveries and analytical evaluation strategies for agarwood, highlighting advances in quality control and authentication.
Key Points
This review aims to consolidate recent progress on agarwood resources, newly discovered phytochemicals, emerging analytical techniques, and pharmacological findings to address challenges in quality evaluation.
Systematic retrieval and data extraction of recent scientific literature on agarwood published from 2020 to 2026.
Integrative analysis of chemical constituents, spectroscopic, chromatographic, and sensor-based analytical methods, and therapeutic mechanisms.
Over 200 new chemical constituents have been identified between 2020 and 2026, including structurally diverse dimeric compounds.
Integrated analytical strategies combining spectroscopy, chromatography, and sensor technologies improved the authentication, sensory evaluation, and grading of agarwood.
A broad spectrum of pharmacological activities was substantiated, though compositional variation remains a key challenge for standardized quality control.