You can use Image Tool, new version for Windows 8 is called CMEIAS. It's easy to use and free! If you need some help to use it, tell me. I can help you!
Guess that showelomics and any statistical software would de adequate as in Plant and soil report by http://scholar.google.it/scholar_url?url=http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan_Lynch/publication/225498329_Shovelomics_high_throughput_phenotyping_of_maize_%28Zea_mays_L.%29_root_architecture_in_the_field/links/09e415097c1b1c32bd000000.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm0b3BaEt-hHKamwbsgrAdsNm5D4Cg&nossl=1&oi=scholarr&ei=9XorVfbCEOP9ygPQ7YHwAw&ved=0CCEQgAMoATAA
Of course much more detailed information is availòable searching for plant architecture and rendering tools, following H. Sinoquet or 3-D digitizers, but for many purposes the amis procedure is a relaible reference
Article Shovelomics: High throughput phenotyping of maize (Zea mays ...
As far I know In wheat the angle is between the first pair of seminal roots. This is usually observed in small root boxes and then tested in vivo for yield. as in Glenn McDonald report at http://regional.org.au/au/asa/2010/crop-production/soil-water/7076_mcdonaldg.htm. I wonder if this could be done in the field, with best regards