Aquilaria agallocha
     Agarwood / 沉香

Taxonomy: Angiosperms / Eudicots / Rosids / Malvales / Thymelaeaceae

Introduction

1. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
2. It is threatened by habitat loss.
3. Aquilari has been used to enhance cerebral function, balance the mind/body connection and the nervous system.
4. It is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine,which mainly treats dropsy and leprosy.
5. Link for medicinal certification.

Genome statistics

Variety	N.A.
Total sequence length	726,710,453 bp
Total assembly gap length	37,363,067 bp
Number of scaffolds	27,769
Scaffold N50	128,399 bp
Scaffold L50	1,389 bp
Number of contigs	110,477
Contig N50	16,831 bp
Contig L50	11,132 bp
Chromosome number	2n=16
Number of component sequences (WGS or clone)	110,477
Protein-coding genes	40,507
Sequencing technology	Illumina Hiseq2000, String Graph Assembler (SGA)

Reference

Chen, C. H. et al. Identification of cucurbitacins and assembly of a draft genome for Aquilaria agallocha. BMC Genomics 15, 1-11 (2014)