“…In addition, from the soil of a antimony mine from Lengshuijiang, southern China (Zheng et al 2014), soil of a magnesite mine from Salem, India (Ramya et al 2015), soil of a coal mine from West Bengal, India (Dhanjal and Cameotra 2010), selenium laden agricultural soil of North-East Punjab, India (Bajaj et al 2012), soil of mangrove forest from Bhitarkanika, Orissa, India (Mishra et al 2011), rhizosphere soil of a selenium hyperaccumulator legume grown in seleniferous mine from Sardina, Italy (Lampis et al 2014), rhizosphere of wheat grown in herbicide contaminated soil (Dwivedi et al 2013), and rhizosphere of cereal plants grown in ash-derived volcanic soil of southern Chile (Durán et al 2015). Others include rock fragments of black oil shale from Haenam, Korea (Tam et al 2010), food wastes collected from local market of Giza, Egypt (Khiralla and El-Deeb 2015), sub gingival dental plaque (Pearce et al 2008) etc. Thus, a large number of selenite-reducing bacteria have been known to produce selenium nanoparticles under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions (Husen and Siddiqi 2014).…”