Plant Root Exudate Analysis

Root exudates are a group of chemical compounds released from plant roots, which contains the ability to alter the activity of soil and microbes below the ground. Root exudates pave the way for communication within the rhizosphere around plant roots, play a pivotal role in the soil system, and create phytomicrobiomes. Root exudate composition resembles the plant constitution and its release of the organic compounds from the root zone allows it to participate in the rhizodeposition process. Root exudate varies across the plant genotype and changes in root exudates of plant can be utilized in the breeding program for the enhancement of nutritional interaction among plants and microbes. Root exudates profiling may prove to be the strongest technique for elaborating on the root role and overcomes the plant- and soil-related hinders crop productivity and sustainable agriculture.