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Element Case Studies: Selenium

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Selenium hyperaccumulator plants such as Stanleya pinnata, Astragalus bisulcatus, and the newly discovered Cardamine hupingshanensis may play an important role in the Se cycle from soil to plant to human, especially in China. Se-hyperaccumulators can be used for agromining or for phytoremediation of Se, as well as for applications to Se-deficient soils in Se-biofortification strategies.

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  1. School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

    Maria Clemencia Zambrano, Linxi Yuan & Xuebin Yin

  2. Jiangsu Bio-Engineering Research Center of Selenium, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

    Maria Clemencia Zambrano, Linxi Yuan & Xuebin Yin

  3. USDA, Agricultural Research Service, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences, Parlier, CA, USA

    Gary Bañuelos

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Zambrano, M.C., Yuan, L., Yin, X., Bañuelos, G. (2018). Element Case Studies: Selenium. In: Van der Ent, A., Echevarria, G., Baker, A., Morel, J. (eds) Agromining: Farming for Metals. Mineral Resource Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61899-9_14

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