Biosynthesis of nanoparticles has received considerable attention
due to the growing need to develop environmentally benign
technologies in material synthesis. For instance, a great deal of
effort has been put into the biosynthesis of inorganic materials,
especially metal nanoparticles using microorganisms [25–31].
While microorganisms such as bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi
continue to be investigated in metal nanoparticles synthesis, the
use of parts of whole plants in similar nanoparticles synthesis
methodologies is an exciting possibility that is relatively unexplored
and under exploited.