TABLE 1.

Sources for biogenic synthesis of nanoparticles.

Sources	Nanoparticle type	Application	Intracellular/Extracellular synthesis	References
Bacteria
Escherichia coli	Ag	Antimicrobial agent	Extracellular	Saeed et al. (2020)
Cupriavidus sp.	Ag	Antibacterial activity	Extracellular	Markus et al. (2016)
Lactobacillus acidophillus	Ag	Gene toxicity	Extracellular	Namasivayam et al. (2010)
Lactobacillus kimchicus	Au	Antioxidant	Intracellular	Markus et al. (2016)
Paracoccus haeundaensis	Au	Antioxidant	Extracellular	Patil et al. (2019b)
Pseudomonas stutzeri	Ag	Antimicrobial agent	Intracellular	Klaus et al. (1999)
Staphylococcus aureus	ZnO	Antibacterial	Intracellular	Rauf et al. (2017)
Desulfovibrio vulgaris	Platinum	Catalysts	Extracellular	Martins et al. (2017)
Bacillus subtilis	Fe3O4	Antimicrobial agent	Extracellular	Sundaram et al. (2012)
Desulfovibrio vulgaris	Palladium	Catalysts	Extracellular	Martins et al. (2017)
Fungi
Cladosporium cladosporioides	Ag	Antioxidant	Extracellular	Zhang et al. (2020)
Cladosporium cladosporioides	Ag	Antimicrobial agent	Extracellular	Zhang et al. (2020)
Aspergillus niger	Ag	Antifungal agent	Extracellular	NevcihanGürsoy (2020)
Cladosporium cladosporioides	Au	Antioxidant	Extracellular	Bhargava et al. (2016)
Cladosporium oxysporum	Au	Catalysts	Extracellular	Bhargava et al. (2016)
Fusarium oxysporum	Cu	Antibacterial	Extracellular	Ghosh et al. (2021)
Fusarium oxysporum	Pt	Nanomedicine	Extracellular	Chatterjee et al. (2020)
Aspergillus niger	Cu	Antidiabetic	Extracellular	Zhang et al. (2019)
Penicillium chrysogenum	Pt	Cytotoxicity	Extracellular	NevcihanGürsoy (2020)
Yeasts
Candida guilliermondii	Au	Antimicrobial agent	Extracellular	Mishra et al. (2011)
Candida guilliermondii	Au	Antibacterial	Intracellular	Agnihotri et al. (2009)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	ZnS	Antibacterial	Intracellular	Sandana Mala and Rose (2014)
Candida albicans	CdS	Bactericidal	Intracellular	Patil et al. (2019b)
Baker’s yeast	Fe2O3	Detection of Glucose	Extracellular	Mishra et al. (2011)
Algae
Tetraselmis kochinensis	Au	Antiviral	—	Senapati et al. (2012)
Spirulina platensis	Ag	Antiviral	Intracellular	Muthusamy et al. (2017)
Spirulina platensis	Ag	Antiviral	Extracellular	Muthusamy et al. (2017)
Chlorella Vulgaris	Pd	Adsorbent	Extracellular	Arsiya et al. (2017)
Chaetomorpha linum	Ag	Anticancer	—	Acharya et al. (2021)
Plants
Azadirachta indica	Ag	Cytotoxicity	—	Potara et al. (2015)
Artemisia annua	Ag	Antibacterial	—	Khani et al. (2018)
Brassica oleracea	Au	Antimicrobial	—	Kumari et al. (2020)
Tribulus terrestris	Au	Antiulcer agent	—	Gopinath et al. (2019)
Cassia occidentalis	Cu	Hemolytic activity	—	Gondwal and Joshi nee Pant (2018)