“…The phytochemicals and secondary metabolites found in plant extracts act as capping agent, and responsible for the reduction of metal ions and formation of NPs. Green synthesized metal/metal oxide NPs like CuO, FeO, and MgO are being utilized enormously in biomedical and clinical applications (Kumari et al, 2018;Sheel et al, 2020;Verma et al, 2020). Instead, AgNPs are preferred over other noble metal NPs like Au, Pt, Pd, Cu, Fe, etc., due to their extensive uses in bioengineering, cosmetics, food packaging, catalysis, electrochemistry, environmental remediation, and pharmaceutical industries as antiseptic agents (Paul et al, 2018;Mohan et al, 2020;Yousaf et al, 2020).…”