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Some of the plant endophytes have ability to accumulate selenium from soil and provide it to the plant in turn benefiting plant's growth, such microbes are known as selenobacteria. Application of such endophytic selenobacteria may improve selenium biofortification in Glycine max crops under drought stress. Under present research we studied such phenomenon and claim the use of selenobacteria to have significant biotechnological application in agriculture. For this study, we isolated bacterial endophytes from the various tissues of Ricinus communis plant that was originally experimented for selenium enrichment. These isolates were assessed to reduce sodium selenite into elemental selenium and the efficient strains were tested on the growth of soybean plant grown under drought stress. Impact of selenobacteria on biofortification of selenium in plant tissues of Glycine max were assessed by HG-AAS. Moreover …