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Using the PF as the criteria, Phragmites australis (grown wild in Egypt). Through
applying numerical classification for the plants recorded by Hu et al. [84] using the
accumulation levels in different areas (from 1 to 9) as variables, we can arrange the
most plants which can grow in Egypt for reducing nucleotides as follow:
Pteris nervosa
Pteris multifida
Phragmites australis
Oxalis corymbosa
Broussonetia papyrifera
Cyperus rotundus
Rubus hanceanus
Solanum nigrum
Artemisia capillaris
Clerodendrum cyrtophyllum
Phytolacca acinosa
Kyllinga brevifolia
Ixeris chinensis
Paspalum scrobiculatum
Cyperus iria
Herba gnaphaii
Ricinus communis
Vitex negundo
Paspalum distichum
Senecio scandens
Artemisia lavandulaefolia
Hibiscus syriacus
Melia azedarach
Xanthium sibiricum
Polygonum posumbu
Portulaca oleracea
Potamogeton pectinatus
Moraceae Morus alba
Youngia japonica
Solanum lyratum
Oxalis violacea
Rubus corchorifolius
Rosa laevigata
Alpinia japonica
Gynura crepidioides
Ligustrum quihoui
Amaranthus spinosus
Cyperus difformis
Paulownia fortunei
Cinnamomum camphora
Rubus alceaefolius
Herba taraxaci
Plantago asiatica
Plantago major
Medicago sativa
Salix matsudana
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The best plants are the ones with the highest numbers