Certain investigations on foot rot disease for betelvine plants using digital imaging technique

The cultivation of betelvine plants is very much affected by foot rot disease produced by the fungus of Phytophthora parasitica and outcome of the cultivator is big loss for betelvine plants cultivation. The aim of this research paper is to identify the foot rot disease infected in the betelvine plants using digital imaging techniques. The digital images of the uninfected betelvine leaves and the digital images of the infected in foot rot diseased betelvine leaves at different stages are collected from different betelvine plants using a high resolution digital camera and collected betelvine images are stored with JPEG format. The digital image analyses of the betelvine leaves are done using the digital image processing toolbox in MATLAB. The median values for all betelvine leaves are computed and calculated median values are stored in the system. The median values of test betelvine leaves are computed and compared with the stored median values. As the consequence of this evaluation, it is identified whether test betelvine leaves are affected by foot rot disease or not. Finally this research work is helps to recognize the foot rot disease can be acknowledged before it spreads to complete crop.