Table 3.

Studies of plant extracts for the biosynthesis of anticancer AgNPs (brain, cervical and colon cancers cell lines).

Cancer	Plant	Part Used	NP Size/NP Shape	Incubation Time	Cell Line	IC50	Ref.
Brain Cancer	Butea monosperma	Leaf	20–80 nm/spherical	2 h	HNGC2	Dose dependent	[101]
Cervical Cancer	Azadirachta indica	Leaf	2–18 nm/triangular, hexagonal	-	Siha	≤4.25 μg/mL	[106]
	Acorous calamus	Rhizome	31.86 nm/spherical	20 h	HeLa	Dose dependent	[107]
	Azadirachta indica	Leaf	<40 nm/spherical	6 h		Dose dependent	[95]
	Calotropis gigantea	Latex	5–30 nm/spherical	24 h		Dose dependent	[108]
	Cymodocea serrulata	Whole	17–29 nm/spherical	2 h		107.7 (GI50)	[109]
	Heliotropium indicum	Leaf	80–120 nm/spherical	2 h		20 μg/mL	[110]
	Melia azedarach	Leaf	78 nm/cubical, spherical	10 min		300 μg/mL (LD50)	[23]
	Moringa olifera	Stem bark	38–40 nm/spherical, pentagonal	24 h		Dose dependent	[25]
	Podophyllum hexandrum	Leaf	14 nm/spherical	30–150 min		20 μg/mL	[111]
	Sargassum vulgare (algae)	Whole	10 nm/spherical	3 h		Dose dependent	[112]
	Syzygium cumini	Flower	<40 nm/spherical	6 h		Dose dependent	[95]
Colon Cancer	Plumeria alba	Flower	36.19 nm/spherical	30 min	COLO 205	5.5 μg/mL	[113]
	Rosa indica	Petal	23.52–60.83 nm/spherical	1 h	HCT 15	30 μg/mL	[114]
	Vitex nigundo	Leaf	22 nm/spherical	4 h		20 μg/mL	[115]
	Citrullus colocynthis	Leaf	13.37 nm/spherical	24 h	HCT-116	>30 μg/mL	[103]
		Roots	7.39 nm/spherical	24 h		>30 μg/mL
		Seeds	16.57 nm/Spherical	24 h		>30 μg/mL
		Fruit	19.26 nm/spherical	24 h		21.2 μg/mL
	Commelina nudiflora L.	Whole	24–80 nm/spherical, triangular	24 h		100 μg/mL	[61]
	Gymnema sylvestre	Leaf	-/spherical	24 h	HT29	85 μg/mL	[116]
	Ulva lactuca (algae)	Whole	56 nm/spherical	10 min		49 μg/mL	[105]

NP—nanoparticle.