The development of preferential staining methods has greatly facilitated studies on the linear differentiation of chromosomes. The cold induced effects on heterochromatin was discovered by Darlington and La Cour (1938) in Paris polyphylla and has been extensively investigated in plants of Trillium (Darlington and La
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