International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Article Invasive Weed Asystasia gangetica as a Potential Biomonitor and a Phytoremediator of Potentially Toxic Metals: A Case Study in Peninsular Malaysia Chee Kong Yap 1,* , Weiyun Chew 1,† , Khalid Awadh Al-Mutairi 2, Salman Abdo Al-Shami 3 , Rosimah Nulit 1 , Mohd Hafiz Ibrahim 1, Koe Wei Wong 1 , Alireza Riyahi Bakhtiari 4, Moslem Sharifinia 5 , Wan Hee Cheng 6, Hideo Okamura 7, Mohamad Saupi Ismail 8 and Muhammad Saleem 9 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang 43400, Malaysia;
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