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Young seedlings raised from six different Norway spruce seed provenances were grown in heavy-metal contaminated soils at two severely polluted areas. After ten months, the rate of survival ranged from 30% – 42% and from 45% – 52% at the two polluted areas, respectively.
Comparisons of the genetic structure analysed at eight polymorphic enzyme loci showed that the heterozygote frequencies at four of these loci have substantially increased in the surviving seedling collections across all provenances as compared to the initial embryo samples. These results were discussed in relation to the metabolic role of the respective enzymes in response to environmental stress and the possibly greater reaction efficiency of the heterozygous enzyme phenotypes in order to recognize a probable overdominant selection regime.
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Bergmann, F., Hosius, B. Effects of heavy metal polluted soils on the genetic structure of norway spruce seedling populations. Water Air Soil Pollut 89, 363–373 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00171642
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