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Here, we introduce a task-specific optical encoding framework for video-rate molecular inference in living plant tissue. The system integrates a passive spectral encoder, implemented here as a low-angle scattering low-density polyethylene (LDPE) layer, into a 22-mm miniaturized probe and learns a supervised mapping from ultraviolet-excited autofluorescence measurements to biomolecular abundance maps. Unlike conventional pipelines that first reconstruct hyperspectral datacubes and then perform spectral unmixing, the deployed system directly estimates endogenous molecular contrast associated primarily with lignin and chlorophyll in poplar tissue, with additional suberin-associated contrast evaluated in suberin-rich tissue. This reframing makes the measurement task biomolecular inference rather than spectral reconstruction, enabling biochemical mapping under low-photon autofluorescence conditions while reducing data burden and computational latency. 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