Assessment of the effects of artificial fungi inoculations on agarwood formation and sap flow rate of Aquilaria malaccensis Lam. using sonic tomography (SoT) and sap flow meter (SFM)

• Main Authors: Jalil, Abd-Majid, Abdul-Hamid, Hazandy, Lias, Sahrim, Uyup, Mohd Khairun Anwar, Md. Tahir, Paridah, Mohd Razali, Sheriza, Mohd-Noor, Ahmad-Azaruddin, Ahmad Syazwan, Samsuddin, Shamsul-Anuar, Alliesya-Shamelia, Mohamad Kasim, Mohamad Roslan, Mohamed, Johar, Abiri, Rambod
• Format: Article
• Published: MDPI 2022
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/100417/; https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/10/1731

Agarwood is a valuable aromatic resinous wood that is biosynthesised when a fungal attack injures the healthy wood tissue of the Aquilaria tree. The magnitude of infection related to sap flow (SF) is one of the most critical functional traits to evaluate the tree’s response to various adverse condit...