“…Similar observations concerning a spatial neighbourhood between chiasmata and heterochromatin were made in other plant and animal species such as Salvia nemorosa (Linnert, 1955), Cestrum (Dyer, 1963), Secale cereale (Jones, 1978), Vicia faba (Friebe, 1979), Bryodema tuberculatum bavaricum (White, 1954a), and Stethophyma grossa (White, 1954b). White's observations, however, were extended by Klfi~terskfi et al (1974), who found the relationship between chiasmata and heterochromatin to be of a more subtle nature.…”