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The somatic metaphase chromosomes of Cypripedium debile and Trillium kamtschaticum are stained differentially by treatment with an acetic orcein-hydrochloric acid mixture: In Cypripedium, the heterochromatic segments stain densely whereas the euchromatic segments are unstained. In Trillium, in contrast, the heterochromatic segments are unstained and euchromatin is stained. Such an inconsistency in stain patterns is considered to stem from different species-specific reactivity of heterochromatin and euchromatin to hydrochloric acid in the staining medium.—In metaphase chromosomes of Cypripedium stained with fast green (Alfert and Geschwind, 1953), the euchromatic segments are stained positively, whereas the heterochromatin, as well as the chromocenters, are unstained. In Trillium, all heterochromatin, euchromatin and chromocenter are stained homogeneously by this method. These results indicate that the heterochromatic segments and chromocenters in Cypripedium are associated with non-histon type proteins, whereas the euchromatic segments in Cypripedium, as well as two different types of the segments and the chromocenters in Trillium, are all bound to histon type proteins. — From these findings, it is concluded that two types of heterochromatin occur in plant materials, though it remains unsettled whether they correspond to α- and β-heterochromatin as found in Dipteran giant chromosomes.—Karyotype analysis is made on the basis of the differential staining pattern of chromosomes revealed by means of acetic orcein-hydrochloric procedure.
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Yamasaki, N. Karyotypanalyse an Hand des Färbungsmusters der Metaphasechromosomen von Cypripedium debile und Trillium kamtschaticum . Chromosoma 33, 372–381 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00326499
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