Hi there,

I am looking for any information I can find on the question as to how plants (in general) produce oils and resins as part of their physiology/metabolic process. Specifically I 'do not' want to know 'why' they produce oils and resins, but how, chemically, oils and resins appear inside plants and form part of their physiology.

(My background is in Viticulture, so I have studied Botany, Plant Physiology, Viticulture, Organic Chemistry, etc).

Regards
Greg

The textbook "Plant Physiology" by Lincoln Taiz has a chapter on this topic. I suggest you get the book.

Here's an online version, not sure if that's the whole book. (I just looked again. It's not.)
Plant Physiology Online: Chapter (http://4e.plantphys.net/chapter.php?ch=13)

"oils and resins" is pretty broad. If you want to look up a specific group like phenolics, terpenes, suberins, etc, that would probably be easier to get an answer on the web.