Abstract
Selenium (Se) has a very narrow gap between its toxicity and benefits to the different forms of life which makes it as an essential micronutrient for living creatures including its importance in plant growth. It is highly soluble having toxic form in the environment such as the oxyanions; selenate and selenite needed to be transformed to the less toxic elemental selenium which has wide number of benefits to the ecosystem, if provided in appropriate required amount. Till now most of the microorganisms have been studied for biotransformation of selenite by using them as electron acceptor in the respiratory mechanism and ultimately reduced to elemental selenium in the form of nanoparticles. Despite of this, many of the microbes are unexplored and the Se-nanoparticles still less studied for their applications. This chapter explains a simple method for isolating the selenium biotransforming microorganisms from nearby soil sample into the red elemental Se in its nano form.
Satish V. Patil and Vikas S. Patil contributed equally to this work.
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We kindly acknowledge the Prof. Paola Andrea Duran, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile for her inspiration and support.
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Nikam, P.B., Salunkhe, N., Marathe, V., Mohite, B.V., Patil, S.V., Patil, V.S. (2022). Isolation of Selenium Biotransforming Microbes as New Age Bioinputs. In: Amaresan, N., Patel, P., Amin, D. (eds) Practical Handbook on Agricultural Microbiology. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1724-3_31
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