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The staining of chromosomes and nuclei in squashes of root tips with aluminium lake of nuclear fast red

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Biologia Plantarum

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In squashes of broad bean and sunflower root tips, the staining with aluminium lake of nuclear fast red led to reliable results, comparable—otherwise—with the use of acetoorcein and similar procedures: the nucleus and ohromosomes are brightly red, the cytoplasm weakly pink.

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  1. Dagmar Poláčková

    Present address: Institute of Genetics and Plant Breeding, R.I.P.P., Praha 6-Ruzyně, Czechoslovakia

  2. K. Beneš

    Present address: Institute of Experimental Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ke dvoru 15, 66 30, Prana 6-Vokovice, Czechoslovakia

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    Poláčková, D., Beneš, K. The staining of chromosomes and nuclei in squashes of root tips with aluminium lake of nuclear fast red. Biol Plant 17, 374–375 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02921165

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