“…The ability of bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes (19), yeast (20), algae (21) and plants (22) to accumulate gold ions from solution has been reported and the synthesis of gold nanoparticles has been successfully demonstrated in a range of organisms including Bacillus sp. (23), fungal species such as Verticillium and Fusarium (24,25), actinomycete such as Rhodococcus (26) and Thermomonospora (27) and lactic acid bacteria (28).…”