• WinDENDRO

• WinSCANOPY

• WinFOLIA

• WinSEEDLE

• WinRHIZO Tron

• WinCAM

• WinCELL

WinRHIZO Basic is a low cost entry level version. It produces only global measurements (average root diameter, total root length, area, volume and number of tips).

WinRHIZO Regular has all features of the Basic model plus root morphology measurement as a function of user definable diameter classes. A root (length, area, volume) distribution graphic is automatically generated and is visible above the image. This graphic can also be printed.

WinRHIZO Pro has all features of the Regular version plus link, topology, architecture and color analyses. The color analysis can produce root morphology as a function of color. It can also be used as a color area meter (click here for details).

WinRHIZO Arabidopsis has all features of the Pro version plus the ability to separate and analyse seprately individual objects such as seedlings and leaves. It can do multiple root analyses per analysed image or regions of it (click here for details).

Link analysis is a study of the morphology and basic connectivity of root segments. It can be done on incomplete or complete root systems.

Basic Connectivity (definitions & colors below refer to figure above)
Red = External-External link
Yellow = External-Internal link
Green = Internal-Internal link
Blue = Isolated link (not connected to any link)

Note: Topology and developmental analyses require an integral root system. It is meaningless if the connectivity of the root system’s links has been destroyed by manipulation or the imaging process. It is not recommended to do link analyses on dense root systems. If you cannot visually track root segments in an image, it is unlikely that RHIZO will be able to do so either. Measurements made on such images will not be precise and might contain errors.

Topology analysis is an extensive link connectivity analysis.

• Magnitude, the number of external links extending from a link.
• Path length, the number of links between a link and the base link, (inclusively).
• External path length, the sum of path lengths of all external links. It is a value for the complete root system (not per link).
• Altitude, the largest path length.

The developmental analysis identifies the order in which links we born from the base link as the plant grew.

Links of the same order can also be grouped per axis. An axis is a group of connected links of the same order. Morphological data can be obtained for all orders and axes.