Review of Plant Breeding: The Arnel R. Hallauer International Symposium.

This book is a compilation of papers presented at The Arnel R. Hallauer international Symposium on Plant Breeding in Mexico City on August 17-22, 2003. As the title indicates, the symposium was held to honor Dr. Arnel Hallauer, a great plant breeder, scientist, and teacher. The book discusses the past and present status of plant breeding worldwide and presents various perspectives about the future of this life-altering discipline. In 27 chapters, it documents the history, accomplishments, and challenges of plant breeding as a discipline as well as its methods in many different crop species

Self-protected nanoscale thermometry based on spin defects in silicon carbide

Quantum sensors with solid state electron spins have attracted considerable interest due to their nanoscale spatial resolution.A critical requirement is to suppress the environment noise of the solid state spin sensor.Here we demonstrate a nanoscale thermometer based on silicon carbide (SiC) electron spins.We experimentally demonstrate that the performance of the spin sensor is robust against dephasing due to a self protected machenism. The SiC thermometry may provide a promising platform for sensing in a noisy environment ,e.g. biological system sensing