Response: A Defense of Pluhar

Pluhar on Methods of Justification

Evaluation of salinity response through the antioxidant defense system and osmolyte accumulation in a mutant rice

In order to assess the responses of Hashemi rice genotype and its advanced mutant line under salinity stress of 100 mM Sodium chloride (NaCl) for three and six days the shoot samples were taken for biochemical analysis. This experiment was performed in split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications. The main factor was factorial combination of saline treatmen...

In Defense of Regulated Fee-for-Service Payment: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Response to a Defense of Zero Inflation

This essay distills the differences between zero inflation proponents and critics to three main questions: Can the central bank make a credible commitment to maintaining a stable price level? Should monetary policy be used to reduce the tax on capital income? And would reducing uncertainty about inflation produce significant social benefits? Proponents of zero inflation answer all three questio...

Antioxidant defense response in a galling insect.

Herbivorous insect species are constantly challenged with reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated from endogenous and exogenous sources. ROS produced within insects because of stress and prooxidant allelochemicals produced by host plants in response to herbivory require a complex mode of antioxidant defense during insect/plant interactions. Some insect herbivores have a midgut-based defense aga...