Oxidation of Elemental Selenium to Selenite by Bacillus megaterium
- 6 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 211 (4482) , 600-601
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6779378
Abstract
A strain of Bacillus megaterium isolated from soil has been found to oxidize elemental selenium in laboratory cultures to selenite and a trace of selenate (< 1 percent of the selenite). This observation represents an important but hitherto unreported oxidative step in the biological selenium cycle.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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