Harnessing endophytic fungi for biosynthesis of selenium nanoparticles and exploring their bioactivities

Hussein, Heba G.; El-Sayed, El-Sayed R.; Younis, Nahed A.; Hamdy, Abd El Hamid A.; Easa, Saadia M.

doi:10.1186/s13568-022-01408-8

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Table 3 Antifungal activity of SeNPs synthesized by A. quadrilineatus, A. ochraceus, A. terreus, and F. equiseti against different human and plant pathogenic fungi

From: Harnessing endophytic fungi for biosynthesis of selenium nanoparticles and exploring their bioactivities

SeNPs concentration (µg mL^− 1)		Diameter of inhibition zone (mm)
SeNPs concentration (µg mL^− 1)		C. albicans	A. brasiliensis	A. alternata	F. oxysporum
A. quadrilineatus	0.00 (C)	0.00^e	0.00^e	0.00^d	0.00^d
	31.25	0.00^e	0.00^e	0.00^d	0.00^d
	62.50	37.67 ± 0.58^d	0.00^e	0.00^d	0.00^d
	125	44.00 ± 0.58^c	17.00 ± 1.00^d	0.00^d	0.00^d
	250	45.67 ± 1.00^c	22.33 ± 2.08^c	12.67 ± 2.08^c	15.00 ± 1.00^c
	500	51.33 ± 2.08^b	27.00 ± 1.00^b	19.00 ± 0.58^b	21.67 ± 0.58^b
	1000	57.00 ± 1.00^a	32.67 ± 0.58^a	25.33 ± 0.58^a	28.00 ± 2.00^a
A. ochraceus	0.00 (C)	0.00^d	0.00^d	0.00^d	0.00^d
	31.25	0.00^d	0.00^d	0.00^d	0.00^d
	62.50	30.67 ± 0.58^c	0.00^d	0.00^d	0.00^d
	125	41.00 ± 2.00^b	12.67 ± 0.58^c	0.00^d	0.00^d
	250	43.67 ± 0.58^b	19.00 ± 1.00^b	11.67 ± 0.58^c	11.00 ± 2.00^c
	500	51.33 ± 2.08^a	25.33 ± 2.08^a	17.00 ± 1.00^b	18.67 ± 0.58^b
	1000	52.00 ± 0.58^a	29.00 ± 1.00^a	20.67 ± 2.08^a	22.33 ± 2.08^a
A. terreus	0.00 (C)	0.00^d	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^c
	31.25	0.00^d	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^c
	62.50	0.00^d	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^c
	125	0.00^d	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^c
	250	18.58 ± 1.53^c	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^c
	500	24.67 ± 1.00^b	15.33 ± 2.08^b	14.67 ± 0.58^b	15.00 ± 1.00^b
	1000	31.00 ± 2.00^a	22.67 ± 1.00^a	20.00 ± 1.00^a	21.00 ± 2.00^a
F. equiseti	0.00 (C)	0.00^d	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^e
	31.25	0.00^d	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^e
	62.50	0.00^d	0.00^e	0.00^e	0.00^e
	125	0.00^d	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^e
	250	16.33 ± 2.08^c	0.00^c	0.00^c	0.00^e
	500	22.00 ± 1.00^b	14.33 ± 1.00^b	16.67 ± 1.00^b	14.67 ± 0.58^b
	1000	29.33 ± 2.08^a	21.58 ± 1.00^a	22.33 ± 0.57^a	20.00 ± 1.00^a
Nystatin/Fluconazole		15.00 ± 1.00	16.33 ± 2.08	13.00 ± 1.00	10.33 ± 0.58

Nystatin/Fluconazole was used at a concentration of 100 µg mL^− 1. Calculated mean is for triplicate measurements from three independent experiments ± SD, ^a − eMeans with different superscripts in the same column for each fungal strain’s nanoparticle are considered statistically different (LSD test, P ≤ 0.05)

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