We investigate how the chain property for the associated primes of monomial
degenerations of toric (or lattice) ideals can be generalized to arbitrary
A-graded monomial ideals. The generalization works in dimension d = 2, but
it fails for d greater than or equal to 3. Moreover, for a certain class o
f binomial ideals (including the A-graded ones) we present an explicit cell
ular primary decomposition.