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Mavukkandy et al. (2016) have prepared platinum nanoparticles from leaves of Lantana.

Nanogold particles have been prepared from flowers of Lantana (Kumar et al., 2016). Patil
and Kumbhar (2017) used terpene rich extract from leaves of Lantana to synthesize silver

nanoparticles. These silver nanoparticles showed antioxidant potential in Dot-blot rapid
screening method and significant antibacterial activity against gram positive bacteria

Staphylococcus aureus as well as gram negative Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas
aeruginosa in agar well diffusion method. They also showed dose-dependent cytotoxicity on

Brine Shrimp Artemia salina napulii.

Aritonang et al. (2019) prepared silver nanoparticles from aqueous extract of its leaves
exhibiting significant antibacterial potential against S.aureus and E.coli. Similarly, aqueous

broth of roots of Lantana has been utilized to prepare gold nanoparticles by Ramkumar et al.

(2017). These gold nanoparticles demonstrated antioxidant potential in 1,1-diphenyl-2-
picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging assay and cytotoxic potential on human breast

cancer cells (MDA-MB-231) and on Vero cell lines. Thus roots of Lantana could be a
potential source of therapeutic gold nanoparticles against cancer and could be a source of

additional income for countries engaged in its management through uprooting. Copper
nanoparticles synthesized using aqueous extract of leaves of Lantana by green bio-reduction

method have shown 100% larval mortality of Anopheles multicolor mosquito vector at a very

low dose of 20 ppm (Nawal et al., 2019). This further emphasizes importance of
nanoparticles over crude plant extracts. Recently, Mahadeva et al. (2021) have prepared zinc

oxide nanoparticles from flowers of Lantana for the first time by combustion method. These
nanoparticles have shown strong anti-inflammatory activity against Phospholipase A2 with

MIC value of 41 μg/mL.

Phytoremediation
Lantana has acted as a potential phytoextractor for heavy metals Cu, Zn, Cr and Mn from

fly ash amended soil without any symptoms of toxicity in its morphology (Pandey and
Bhattacharya, 2018). It also possesses high bioaccumulation and low translocation capacity

of metal contaminants dumped in municipal solid wastes (Singh et al., 2018). Addition of

Earthworms to soil has demonstrated to increase Pb uptake capacity of Lantana plants by two
to three times suggesting that phytoremediation should also involve plant/microbe/earthworm

interactions for maximum efficacy (Jusselme et al., 2012). Recent studies have shown
Lantana plants to be a potential Cadmium hyperaccumulator. It effectively tolerates high Cd

concentration and co-ordinate photosynthesis along with reactive oxygen species scavenging
and could be utilized for amelioration of Cd polluted soils (Liu et al., 2019). Lantana is being

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