“…Selenite-reducing bacteria have been isolated from a variety of environments including Mono Lake of California (Oremland et al 2004), Dead sea, a salt lake (Oremland et al 2004), Caspian sea of Iran (Shakibaie et al 2015), sediments of Cama-rones river from Atacama desert, Northern Chile (Torres et al 2012), activated sludge (Srivastava and Mukhopadhyay 2013), sludge of Taiyuan sewage plant, China (Li et al 2014), drainage slough from Nevada (Oremland et al 2004), and anaerobic granules from paper mill wastewater treating reactor (Jain et al 2015). 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).…”