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Cardamine resedifolia shows high genetic differentiation between populations on mining-contaminated versus nearby reference soils only a few dozen meters apart.
- Why it matters: Natural alpine soils combine multiple contaminants with heightened abiotic stress, yet how plants adapt on very fine spatial and temporal scales in such multi-stress settings remains poorly understood.
- What they did: The study compared populations from former copper, silver-lead, and coal mines with nearby reference soils, measured within- and between-population genetic variation, and used reciprocal transplants plus genome scans to find candidate genes under selection.
- The result: Local adaptation was detected in most cases, especially in former copper mines, and genome scans implicated genes involved in metal stress management, supporting rapid adaptation to mining pollution at remarkably small spatial scales.
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