Bioharvesting and improvement of nano-silica yield from bagasse by irradiated Curvularia spicifera.

Background: Sugarcane bagasse is an organic waste material abundant in silica. Silica is a very significant inorganic substance that is widely employed in a variety of industrial applications.This study displays an eco-friendly and inexpensive biotransformation process producing silica nanoparticles (SNPs) using a primarily reported Curvularias picifera strain under solid-state fermentation (SSF) on bagasse as a starting material.