Root mixture analysis: methods and vision

Marco Lombardi

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2025.07.003

Root mixture analysis: methods and vision

2025-08-07

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Henrik Brinch‐Pedersen

DOI：10.1016/j.tplants.2025.07.003

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Maintaining crop diversity in agriculture is the key to move toward sustainable production of food, feed, and energy and is an effective strategy for C mitigation. Differences in root chemical stoichiometry serve as distinctive markers that characterize the unique attributes of the species. Current tools present significant challenges, making it difficult to analyze root-to-root interactions nondestructively in real time. Analysis of spectral signatures encoding the physicochemical properties of the root zone enables differentiation of root species in field-based root research.

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sustainable agriculture

minirhizotron

root phenotyping

multispectral analysis

carbon sequestration

grassland mixtures

intercropping

Root mixture analysis: methods and vision

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