Evaluation location: Iowa, United States
Fifty/twenty five seeds are wrapped in 2 sheets of germination toweling and replicated four times. The four replications are rubber banded together and eight accessions are placed in plastic tubs. Germinations are performed in a high humidity germinator set at 12 hours 20 degrees centigrade in the dark alternating with 12 hours 30 degrees centigrade in the light. Towels are kept moist with distilled water during the germination period. The number of germinated, abnormal and hard seed are counted at 5 and 14 days after the germinations are established. >1500 seed pull 200 seed. >1200 seed < 1500 seed pull 100 seed. <1200 seed pull no seed.