A representative list of fungi and yeast used to synthesize metal nanoparticles and their applications.

Fungi	Source of isolation	Metal nanoparticle	Characterization		Applications	Reference
			Size (nm)	Morphology
Penicillium diversum	Microbial Type Culture Collection, Chandigarh, India	Silver	10–50	Roughly spherical	Antimicrobial activity	56
Aspergillus foetidus	Kalyani Waste Water Centre, West Bengal India	Silver	20–40	Roughly spherical	Antifungal activity	57
Fusarium oxysporum sp. cubense JT1	Isolated from wilt infected banana plants	Gold	22	nd	Antimicrobial activity	58
Trichoderma harzianum	Procured from College of Life Sciences, Gwalior, India	Cadmium sulfide	3–8	Spherical	Photocatalytic activity	59
Botrytis cinerea	Isolated form rotten grapes collected from Region IV, Chile	Gold	1–100	Triangular, spherical, hexagonal, pyramidal, decahedral	nd	60
Nigrospora oryzae	nd	Gold	6–18	Cubic and spherical	Anthelmintic activity	61
Schizophyllum radiatum HE863742.1	Eturnagaram forest, Andhra Pradesh, India	Silver	10–40	Irregular shapes	Antimicrobial activity	50
Trichoderma viride and Hypocrea lixii	Microbial Type Culture Collection, Chandigarh, India	Gold	61	Triangles, rods, spheres, hexagons	Biocatalytic and antimicrobial activity	49
Aspergillus terreus	Microbial Type Culture Collection, Chandigarh, India	Zinc oxide	28–63	Spherical	Anticancer activity	62
Curvularia lunata	Leaves of Catharanthusroeus	Silver	10–50	Spherical	Synergistic antimicrobial activity	63
Metarhizium anisopliae	T-Stanes & Company Limited, Tamil Nadu, India	Silver	28–38	Rod-shaped	Mosquitocidal activity against Anopheles culicifacies	64
Cladosporium oxysporum AJP03	Soil from Sonshi mining region, Goa, India	Gold	72 ± 21	Spherical	Degradation of rhodamine B	48
Fusarium oxysporum 405	Obtained from American Research Service, Washington, USA	Silver	10–50	Spherical	Colloidal stability	51
Rhizopus oryzae	National Collection of Industrial Microorganism (NCIM), Pune, India	Gold	16–43	Spherical and Flower like	Hemcompatible activity	52
Trichoderma harzianum	nd	Silver	20–30	Spherical	Antifungal activity	65
Colletotrichum sp.	Amravati University, Amravati, India	Aluminium oxide	30–50	Spherical	Antimicrobial activity	53
Fusarium oxysporum	National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran	Silver	34–44	Spherical	Antibacterial activity	66
Pleurotus ostreatus	Biotechnology Center, Cairo University, Egypt	Gold	10–30	Spherical and prism shape	Anticancer and synergistic antimicrobial activity	54
Penicillium citreonigrum	East of Lake Burullus, Egypt	Silver	6–26	Spherical	Antibacterial activity	55
Yeast
Rhodosporidium diobovatum	Isolated from Indian Ocean	Lead sulfide	2–5	Spherical	Lead accumulation	72
Yarrowia lipolytica NCYC789	National Collection of Yeast Cultures, Norwich, U.K.	Silver	15	-	Antibiofilm activity	67
Candida utilis NCIM 3469	National Collection of Industrial Microorganism (NCIM), Pune, Maharashtra, India	Silver	20–80	Spherical	Antibacterial activity	68
Cryptococcus laurentii	nd	Silver	35 ± 10	Roughly spherical	Antitumor activity	73
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Purchased from local market	Silver	2–20	Spherical	nd	74
Magnusiomyces ingens LH-F1	Sea mud of Harbor Industrial Zone, Dalian, China	Gold				75
Pichia pastoris	Recombinant strain overexpressing Mucor racemosus cytochrome b5 reductase	Silver	70–180	Spherical	nd	69
Candida lusitaniae	Isolated from gut of Cornitermes cumulans termite	Silver and silver chloride	2–10	Cubical, cuboctahedral, icosahedral and spherical	Antiproliferative and microbicidal activity	70
Cryptococcus laurentii; Rhodotorula glutinis	Isolated from apple peel	Silver	15–35	Spherical	Antifungal activity	76
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	AB Mauri (P) Ltd, Bangaluru, Karnataka, India	Gold nanoplates	—	Hexagonal and triangular nanoplates	Surface-plasmon enhanced applications	77
Candida albicans ATCC 10231	American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, USA	Silver	10–20	Spherical		78
Pichia kudriavzevii	Isolated from Sourdoughs and Tanzanian Togwa	Zinc oxide	10–61	Hexagonal wurtzite structure	Antioxidant and antibacterial property	79
Rhodotorula mucilaginosa	Copper Waste Pond at the Sossego Mine, Brazil	Silver	11	Spherical	Bioremediation of silver ions	80
Phaffia rhodozyma	American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), USA	Silver and gold	Silver: 5–9, gold: 4–7	Spherical and quasi-spherical	Antifungal activity	81
Magnusiomyces ingens LH-F1	Sea mud of Harbor Industrial Zone, Dalian, China	Gold	20.3–28.3	Spherical and pseudo-spherical	Catalyst for nitrophenols reduction	82
Rhodotorula glutinis	Soil Sample of Pici Campus, The Federal University of Ceará, Brazil	Silver	15.45 ± 7.94	Spherical	Antifungal activity, degradation of nitrophenol and methylene blue	83
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Purchased from Pagariya Food Products (P) Ltd, Tamil Nadu, India	Palladium	32	Hexagonal	Degradation of textile dyes	71
Candida glabrata	Oropharyngeal Mucosa of HIV patients	Silver	2–15	Spherical	Antimicrobial activity	84