Table 3.

Fungi and properties of fungi-mediated nanoparticles used for application in agriculture, industries and others areas.

Fungus species	Nanoparticles	Localization	Size (nm)	Shape	Application	Reference
Botrytis cinerea	Au	Extracellular	1–100	Spherical, triangular, hexagonal, decahedral, pyramidal	-	Castro et al. (2014)
Aspergillus fumigatus	ZnO	Extracellular	1.2–6.8	Spherical and hexagonal	Industrial and agricultural sectors	Raliya et al. (2013)
Hormoconis resinae	Ag	Extracellular	20–80	Cubic	-	Varshney et al. (2009)
Aspergillus oryzae	FeCl3	-	10–24.6	Spherical	Agricultural and engineering sectors	Raliya (2013)
Aspergillus tubingensis	Ca3P2O8	Extracellular	28.2	Spherical	Agricultural and engineering sectors	Tarafdar et al. (2012)
Rhizopus oryzae	Au	Cell surface	10	Nanocrystalline	Pesticides	Das et al. (2009)
Rhizopus stolonifer	Au	-	1–5	Irregularly (uniform)	-	Sarkar et al. (2012)
Aspergillus niger	Au	Extracellular	10–20	Polydispersed	-	Xie et al. (2007)
Aspergillus niger	Au	Extracellular	12.79 ± 5.61	Spherical	-	Bhambure et al. (2009)
Aureobasidium pullulans	Au	Intracellular	29 ± 6	Spherical	-	Zhang et al. (2011)
Colletotrichum ​sp.	Au	-	20–40	Decahedral and icosahedral	-	Shankar et al. (2013)
Fusarium semitectum	Au	-	25	Spherical	Optoelectronics	Sawle et al. (2008)
Fusarium oxysporum	Au	-	2–50	Spherical, monodispersity	-	Zhang et al. (2011)
Fusarium oxysporum	Au	Intracellular	128 ± 70 ​a	Aggregates	-	Mandal et al. (2006)
Neurospora crassa	Au	-	32	Spherical	-	Castro-Longoria et al. (2011)
Verticillium ​sp.	Au	Cell wall	20 ± 8	Spherical	-	Mukherjee et al. (2001a, b)
Verticillium ​sp.	Au	Cytoplsmicmembran	20 ± 8	Quasihexagonl	-	Mukherjee et al. (2001a, b)
Verticillium luteoalbum	Au	Intracellular	<10	Spheres and rods	-	Gericke and Pinches (2006)
Cylindrocladium ​floridanu	Au	Extracellular	19.5	Spherical	-	Narayanan and Sakthivel (2013)
Phanerochaete chrysosporium	Au	Extracellular	10–100	Spherical	-	Sanghi et al. (2011)
Sclerotium rolfsii	Au	Extracellular	25	Triangles, decahedral, hexagonal and rods	-	Narayanan and Sakthivel (2011)
Fusarium oxyporum	Au	Extracellular	8–40	Spherical and triangular	-	Mukherjee et al. (2002)
Fusarium oxyporum	Au	Extracellular	46.21	Spherical, triangular	-	Shankar et al. (2004)
Colletotrichum ​sp.	Au	Extracellular	8–40	Spherical	-	Shankar et al. (2013)
Rhizopus stolonifer	Au	-	1–5	Irregularly	-	Binupriya et al. (2010)
Verticillium luteoalbum	Au	Intracellular	Various	Various	-	Gericke and Pinches (2006)
Coriolis versicolor	Au	Extra- and intracellular	20–100, 100–300	Spherical and ellipsoidal	-	Sanghi and Verma (2010)
Rhizopus oryzae	Au	-	Various	Triangular, hexagonal, pentagonal, spheroidal, sea urchin like, 2D nanowires, nanorods	-	Das et al. (2010)
Aspergillus niger	Au	-	Various	Plates, aggregates, spherical	-	Xie et al. (2007)
Aspergillus niger	Au	-	Various	Nanowalls, spiral plates, spherical	-	Xie et al. (2007)
Aspergillus niger	Au	-	50–500	Nanoplates	-	Xie et al. (2007)
Verticillum ​sp.	Ag	Intracellular	25	Spherical	-	Mukherjee et al. (2001a, b)
Fusarium oxyporum	Ag	Extracellular	5–15	Highly variable	-	Ahmad et al. (2003)
Fusarium oxyporum	Ag	-	10–25	Aggregates	-	Kumar et al. (2007a, b)
Aspergillus fumigatus	Ag	-	5–25	Mostly spherical, some triangular	-	Bhainsa and D'Souza (2006)
Aspergillus flavus	Ag	On cell wall surface	8.92	Spherical	-	Vigneshwaran et al. (2007)
Trichoderma asperellum	Ag	-	13–18	Nanocrystalline	Agriculture	Mukherjee et al. (2002)
Penicillium fellutanum	Ag	Extracellular	5–25	Mostly spherical	-	Kathiresan et al. (2009)
Penicillium ​strain J3	Ag	-	10–100	Mostly spherical	-	Maliszewska et al. (2009)
Cladosporium cladosporioides	Ag	-	10–100	Mostly spherical	-	Balaji et al. (2009)
Coriolis versicolor	Ag	Extra- and intracellular	25–75, 444–491	Spherical	-	Sanghi and Verma (2009)
Trichoderma viride	Ag	-	2–4, 10–40, 80–100	Spherical	-	Fayaz et al. (2009b)
Trichoderma viride	Ag	-	2–4	Mostly spherical	Biosensor and bio imaging	Fayaz et al. (2010a)
Trichoderma reesei	Ag	Extracellular	5–50	Spherical	-	Vahabi et al. (2011)
Aspergillus flavus ​NJP08	Ag	-	17	Spherical	-	Jain et al. (2011)
Rhizopus stolonifer	Ag	-	25–30	Quasi-spherical	-	Binupriya et al. (2010)
Aspergillus terreus CZR-1	Ag	Extracellular	2.5	Spherical	Agriculture and engineering sector	(Raliya and Tarafdar, 2012) and Tarafdar et al., 2012
Fusarium oxyporum	Au–Ag	Extracellular	8–14	Quasi-spherical	-	Senapati et al. (2005)
Fusarium oxysporum	Fe3O4	Extracellular	20–50	Irregular, quasi-spherical	-	Bharde et al. (2006)
Verticillium ​sp.	Fe3O4	Extracellular	100–400, 20–50	Cubo-octahedral, quasi-spherical	-	Bharde et al. (2006)
Aspergillus flavus TFR7	TiO2		12–15	Extracellular	Plant nutrient	Raliya et al. (2015)
Fusarium oxyporum	BT	Extracellular	4–5	Quasi-spherical	-	Bansal et al. (2006)
Fusarium oxyporum	Cd	Extracellular	9–15	Spherical	-	Kumar et al. (2007a, b)
Fusarium oxyporum	Pt	-	70–180	Rectangular, triangular, spherical and aggregates	-	Govender et al. (2009)
Fusarium oxysporum, F. sp. ​lycopersici	Pt	Extra-and intracellular	10–100	Hexagonal, pentagonal, circular, squares, rectangles	-	Riddin et al. (2006)
Fusarium ​sp.	Zn	Intracellular	100–200	Irregular, some spherical	-	Velmurugan et al. (2010)
Aspergillus versicolor mycelia	Hg	Surface of mycelia	20.5 ± 1.82	Alteration	-	Das et al. (2008)
Fungi isolated from the soil	Zn, Mg and Ti	extracellular	Various	-	-	Raliya et al. (2013)