455 Dear Editor, We read with interest the article “Retinal Sensitivity over Hard Exudates in Diabetic Retinopathy” by Raman et al.[1] The authors analyzed 12 eyes with diabetic retinopathy with hard exudates using microperimetry. They found reduced retinal sensitivity in the areas of hard exudates which correlated negatively with retinal thickness, but not with the size of exudation. We would ...

Verticillium wilt (caused by Verticillium dahliae), a soilborne disease, often causes significant reductions of yield in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) production where crop rotation is limited. Rootstock replacement through grafting is considered an effective method to control this disease. This 2-year study investigated the eggplant yield, resistance to verticillium wilt, and allelochemicals...

Noyes, Howard E. (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.), William L. Pritchard, Floyd B. Brinkley, and Janice A. Mendelson. Analyses of wound exudates for clostridial toxins. J. Bacteriol. 87:623-629. 1964.-Earlier studies indicated that death of goats with traumatic wounds of the hindquarter could be related to the number of clostridia in the wounds, and that toxicity of wou...

Automatic Detection of Exudates and Microaneurysms from Non-Dilated Diabetic Retinopathy Retinal Images S.Sankaranarayanan, Dr.,M.Anto Bennet Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VELTECH Avadi-Chennai600062, Tamilnadu, India __________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Exudates are one of the earliest and most prevalent...

Diabetic retinopathy is the complications of diabetes, which can eventually lead to blindness. To prevent from blindness of diabetic patient an early detection of diabetic retinopathy is very important. As exudates are the early sign of diabetic retinopathy, we can save diabetic patient from blindness by detecting exudates. In this paper, we have developed an improved method of automatic exudat...

Diabetic retinopathy is a health problem which causes blindness in middle and advanced age group. Automatic identification of exudates in retinal images can contribute to early diagnosis of DR. Many approaches in literature are discussed on segmenting the exudates. This paper has shown different techniques of exudates segmentation with its benefits and limitations. All discussed techniques have...

Grafting watermelon onto bottle gourd rootstock is commonly used method to generate resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum (FON), but knowledge of the effect of the root exudates of grafted watermelon on this soil-borne pathogen in rhizosphere remains limited. To investigate the root exudate profiles of the own-root bottle gourd, grafted-root watermelon and own-root watermelon, recircul...