Glycine Max Seed Mediated Synthesis and Characterization of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and its Antifungal Activity Against Pathogenic Fungal Strains

Background: Among the metal nanoparticles Zinc oxide nanoparticles have more applications in many areas, including biomedical, materials science, and environmental technology. Soybean is one of the important commercial crops due to the presence of protein, oil, carbohydrates, minerals, saponins and isoflavonoids such as genistein and daidzein.

Materials and Merhod: In this present study we synthesis the Zinc oxide nanoparticles by using glycine max seed extract. We examine the size and morphology of synthesized Zinc oxide nanoparticles by using UV-visSpectrophotometer, X-ray Diffraction (XRD).

Results: Herein, the Zinc oxide nanoparticles were synthesized by using seed extracts of glycine max with in 6h and the size of the Zinc oxide nanoparticles ranges from 70-90 and predominantly spherical shapes with crystalline nature. Elemental analysis of Zinc oxide nanoparticles was characterized by EDX.

Conclusion: The synthesized Zinc oxide nanoparticles from glycine max exhibit excellent antimicrobial activity against different clinically isolated fungi such as Aspergillus flavis, Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, and Fusarium sp.