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APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 99, Issue 23, Pages 9923-9934Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6987-1
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Silver nanoparticles; Antibacterial activity; Green synthesis; Nanotechnology; Nanoparticles; Plants; FTIR; XRD; Green nanotechnology
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- Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan
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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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