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Synthesis in plants and plant extracts of silver nanoparticles with potent antimicrobial properties: current status and future prospects

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Synthesis of silver nanoparticles by plants and plant extracts (green synthesis) has been developed into an important innovative biotechnology, especially in the application of such particles in the control of pathogenic bacteria. This is a safer technology, biologically and environmentally, than synthesis of silver nanoparticles by chemical or physical methods. Plants are preferable to microbes as agents for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles because plants do not need to be maintained in cell culture. The antibacterial activity of bionanoparticles has been extensively explored during the past decade. This review examines studies published in the last decade that deal with the synthesis of silver nanoparticles in plants and their antibacterial activity.

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    Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Tariq Khan & Akhtar Nadhman

  3. Biotechnology Program, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Mubarak Ali Khan

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Mashwani, ZuR., Khan, T., Khan, M.A. et al. Synthesis in plants and plant extracts of silver nanoparticles with potent antimicrobial properties: current status and future prospects. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 99, 9923–9934 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-015-6987-1

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