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Understanding soil selenium accumulation and bioavailability through size resolved and elemental characterization of soil extracts.

ABSTRACT: Dietary deficiency of selenium is a global health threat related to low selenium concentrations in crops. Despite the chemical similarity of selenium to the two more abundantly studied elements sulfur and arsenic, the understanding of its accumulation in soils and availability for plants is limited. The lack of understanding of soil selenium cycling is largely due to the unavailability of methods to characterize selenium species in soils, especially the organic ones. Here we develop a size-resolved multi-elemental method using liquid chromatography and elemental mass spectrometry, which enables an advanced characterization of selenium, sulfur, and arsenic species in soil extracts. We apply the analytical approach to soils sampled along the Kohala rainfall gradient on Big Island (Hawaii), which cover a large range of organic carbon and (oxy)hydroxides contents. Similarly to sulfur but contrarily to arsenic, a large fraction of selenium is found associated with organic matter in these soils. However, while sulfur and arsenic are predominantly found as oxyanions in water extracts, selenium mainly exists as small hydrophilic organic compounds. Combining Kohala soil speciation data with concentrations in parent rock and plants further suggests that selenium association with organic matter limits its mobility in soils and availability for plants.

SUBMITTER: Tolu J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9666626 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Understanding soil selenium accumulation and bioavailability through size resolved and elemental characterization of soil extracts.

Tolu Julie J Bouchet Sylvain S Helfenstein Julian J Hausheer Olivia O Chékifi Sarah S Frossard Emmanuel E Tamburini Federica F Chadwick Oliver A OA Winkel Lenny H E LHE

Nature communications 20221115 1

Dietary deficiency of selenium is a global health threat related to low selenium concentrations in crops. Despite the chemical similarity of selenium to the two more abundantly studied elements sulfur and arsenic, the understanding of its accumulation in soils and availability for plants is limited. The lack of understanding of soil selenium cycling is largely due to the unavailability of methods to characterize selenium species in soils, especially the organic ones. Here we develop a size-resol ...[more]

PMID: 36379945

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